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Endperform

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From: Atlanta GA, USA

Registered: 2007-09-04

Posts: 94

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GVFS disk usage

Anyone else see this with Gnome 2.20

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2              19G  3.0G   15G  18% /
none                 1013M     0 1013M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1              76G   30G   46G  40% /mnt/windows
/dev/sda4              54G   24G   28G  47% /home
gvfs-fuse-daemon       19G  3.0G   15G  18% /home/fubar/.gvfs

It seems that gvfs has taken a chunk of disk space, to the tune of 19GB, for itself.  Just curious if it needs all of this space, and if it's configurable.

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: GVFS disk usage

I ran df -h on my machine, and the gvfs-fuse-daemon line is showing statistics for the / directory, just like on yours.  I don't have any other 7.9G partitions, so I know it's that one.  I'm running gnome 2.22, btw.

srimalik

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Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 65

Re: GVFS disk usage

To me it seems that its no real space. Nothing is being consumed from your hardisk.
It seems to be some kind of mapping  between / and this file system. I will read about the gvfs thing and try to find out.

Last edited by srimalik (2008-04-12 04:53:21)

robertp

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From: Warszawa, Poland

Registered: 2007-09-11

Posts: 123

Re: GVFS disk usage

Look at this (obtained by running df -k):

/dev/sda5             10317828   8612556   1181156  88% /
none                    540672         0    540672   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             31463268   9842048  21621220  32% /mnt/win
/dev/sda2            151004480  25188696 125815784  17% /dane
gvfs-fuse-daemon      10317828   8612556   1181156  88% /home/robert/.gvfs

As you see first (/dev/sda5) and last (gvfs) lines are almost the same. I guess GVFS mount is a simple mapping to / (root directory) needed for some reason. I mean it doesn't take any of your disk space and there is no need to worry.