.gvfs should be a directory, used as a mount-point for shares accessed
via nautilus to allow non gnome application to access them (which will
only happen if gvfs-fuse is installed). It should be safe to just
delete that folder and recreate it (nothing is stored in it).
As for actually why it happened in the first place, what filesystem
are you using on that drive?
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Chris Friesen <cbf123@mail.usask.ca> wrote:
> Les Klassen Hamm wrote:
>
>> A directory listing shows the following snippet (a line above and below
>> included for context):
>>
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 leskh leskh 108 2008-06-20 14:55 .gtk-bookmarks
>> d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs
>> -rw------- 1 leskh leskh 519 2008-06-24 16:20 .ICEauthority
>>
>> Can anyone tell me something about that? This is on a fresh install of
>> Ubuntu 8.04
>> It doesn't seem to be doing any damage, except for the error message
>> during backup, but it looks wrong, even potentially troublesome.
>
> I'd be suspicious of a corrupt file/inode/directory. Is there an fsck for
> the filesystem, or some other way to validate/fix it?
>
> If you wanted to get really hardcore you could read the raw inodes on disk
> and parse it manually...
>
> Chris
>
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