On 8 July 2010 00:44, John Jason Jordan <johnxj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 12:43:30 +0200 > "Kjeld Flarup" <kjeld.flarup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dijo: > >>Hello >> >>When running backup jobs as root, the .gvfs mount is causing permission >>denied warnings from both tar & find jobs. >> >>I find this very annoying. >> >>Is it advisable to unmount .gvfs before running a backup? >> >>Or are there other posibilities to prevent these messages. > > I would also like an answer to this question. I use rdiff-backup and it > errors on the .gvfs mount causing the backup to halt. Luckily it gets > to the error message after only a few minutes of the backup, so I can > just wait for it to happen and then tell the backup to continue. I've > tried excluding it from the backup, but so far haven't hit on the right > syntax. > > As I recall I tried unmounting it and could not do so, even as root. $ fusermount -u ~/.gvfs > I'd like more information on exactly what .gvfs does and who thought it > was a good idea to mess up backups. I guess it's something to do with the GNOME Virtual File System (gvfs). I've never seen anything mounted there even though gvfs-mount tells me I have a CD-ROM in the drive. -- Joshua Crawford ... http://geocities.com/mortarn http://www.rewardscentral.com.au/Join/Default.aspx?refer=mortarn Be rewarded! Join RewardsCentral today! _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
