gvfsd (1) Linux Manual Page

The primary task of gvfsd is to act as a mount tracker/manager. It spawns new backends when requested and keeps track of their lifecycle, maintaining a list of active mounts and creates direct connections to them.

Since gvfs backends are running as children of the gvfsd process, it is possible to start gvfsd in a terminal and set environment variables to get debug output from individual backends.

gvfsd also starts the gvfsd-fuse(1), and provides it the mount point where the fuse file system should be mounted.

Options

Prints a short help text and exits.

–version

Shows the version number and exits.

-r, –replace

Replace the currently running gvfsd instance.

–no-fuse

Don’t start the fuse filesystem.

-d, –debug

Enable debug output.

Environment

If this environment variable is set, gvfsd will not start the fuse filesystem.

Exit Status

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