A 'gvfs-fuse-daemon' filesystem has appeared, which is taking up 50% of my disc space:
jhw@jhw:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 5.9G 4.9G 965M 84% /
varrun 501M 100K 501M 1% /var/run
varlock 501M 0 501M 0% /var/lock
udev 501M 44K 501M 1% /dev
devshm 501M 12K 501M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 501M 1.7M 499M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.24-27-lpia/volatile
gvfs-fuse-daemon 5.9G 4.9G 965M 84% /home/jhw/.gvfs
jhw@jhw:~$
I'm pretty sure this is a Hardy bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/simplebackup/+bug/227753
As the link says, gvfs seems to have decided that one of my network drives is in my root partition, making it think the root partition is full.
Unfortunately none of the solutions in the link work for me. I think this happened when I plugged in a badly formatted USB drive and then didn't unmount it properly. I'm looking for any advice as to how to unmount this gvfs network drive, and free up my disk space.
Thanks!
jhw@jhw:~$ gvfs-mount -l
Drive(0): USB Drive
So it is the USB drive ..
jhw@jhw:~$ gvfs-mount -u
jhw@jhw:~$ gvfs-mount -u 0
Error finding enclosing mount: Containing mount does not exist
Do I have the unmount syntax right?
jhw@jhw:~$ gvfs-mount -l
Drive(0): USB Drive
Doh
fusermount -u removes the gvfs entry but doesn't free the space; the entry then reappears on restart
