Questions tagged [gvfs]
GNOME Virtual file system (GVFS) is a userspace virtual filesystem designed to work with the I/O abstraction of GIO.
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How can I stop gvfs/glib from reading an internal drive as if it's external?
My file manager needs gvfs for the trash functionality,, but after installing gvfs my drive, which is mounted at /media/storage is read as an external 4tb volume at /dev/dm1 rather than just 'storage'....
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sftp + thunar in Debian 12 is in a password loop
I recently bought a new laptop and installed Debian 12 + xfce environment.
And I'd like to access my server (which has Debian 12) with Thunar, as I always did before.
I can access my server via sftp ...
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How to mount MTP devices independently of desktop environment
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 with Gnome and I want to create a bash script which copy files from my phone to my laptop.
Seeing this answer, I installed gvfs-fuse, reboot and now the device is available at /...
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gio mount: volume doesn't implement mount
Like many other posts, gio mount for me results in volume doesn't implement mount. I've followed just about every SE post for instantiating a dbus session prior to mounting but end up with the same ...
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gvsf (GNOME virtual file system) on usb-ios, when I git clone, I get: fatal: could not set 'core.filemode' to 'false' , due to OS service to rename
I usb-connect my ios device on my linux laptop. The linux system mounts a gvfs point to it (/run/user/1000/gvfs/afc:host=xxxxxxxxxx,port=3), I change directory there, I can rsync back and forth, but I ...
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Where is my Android device mounted inside my Linux?
I am trying to run a bash script on certain folder inside an Android phone, mounted in my Fedora Linux box. I can see that the phone is there with adb devices (no, I do not want to use ADB for this!), ...
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Is there such thing as "administrator root"?
So leaving details aside last night i stumbled across "administrator root" in a live instance of Zorin.
First off, is Administrator Root even a thing? If so, where does it fall into the ...
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How to find out with which user gvfs has connected to smb share
I can connect to network drives with the following command:
( echo myusername; echo MYDOMAIN; echo password123 ) | gio mount smb://127.0.0.1/Sharename
And I can get some file attributes of the mount ...
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What is the admin:// prefix and how to make it work?
Looking for an alternative to gksudo in Debian, I stumbled upon this article, which suggests to use the admin:// prefix in order to access files as root. E.g. instead of
gksu gedit /etc/default/apport
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Unmount gvfs fileserver which does not show up in 'gvfs-mount -l'
I am working on a remote server that runs CentOS 7.4.1708. On this server, I managed to mount a fileserver, which is in the same network, with the following commands that I found somewhere on the ...
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Managing network storage from terminal
Sorry for the question that is too general, but I would like to switch to using the terminal instead of GUI programs as much as possible and I cannot formulate my question more precisely.
In the ...
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GVFS not supporting schemes other than file:///
This is what I believe to be the root of a much larger problem with my install of GVFS. I'm running XFCE4 on Linux Mint 20.04, and from day 1 have not been able to use GVFS functions in any file ...
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gvfs works in Krusader, with an Android phone, but "can't write into ..." when trying to copy a file into it
I use Krusader to access my Android phone and copy files to it. The path is this
/run/user/1000/gvfs/mtp:host=<my_phone123>/
Firstly, it won't display the content of that path, even though it's ...
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How to start GnuPG SSH Agent for gvfs?
I use Gnome 3.36.3 (Ubuntu 20.04.1) with GnuPG 2.2.19 as SSH agent.
I tell OpenSSH where to find the GnuPG SSH agent socket in my ~/.profile file:
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$(gpgconf --list-dirs agent-ssh-...
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Shutdown is slow, always waiting 2 minutes for gvfsd-fuse to terminate
My desktop is using OpenSuse 15.1 with latest updates, systemd 234-lp151.26.16.1, gvfs 1.34.2.1-lp151.6.3.1.
Since a while (I cannot remember exactly when it started) a system shutdown takes at least ...
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