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df reports "Permission Denied" on /root/.gvfs when executed by non-root user (Doc ID 1612396.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 6.0 and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

df command output reports "df: `/root/.gvfs': Permission denied" when executed by non-root users:

testuser@oraclelinux64 ~]$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_oraclelinux64-lv_root
51606140 5475092 43509608 12% /
tmpfs 961340 144 961196 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 495844 54365 415879 12% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg_oraclelinux64-lv_home
26358856 177164 24842712 1% /home
df: '/root/.gvfs': Permission denied

  

Changes

Packages fuse (File System in Userspace) and gvfs (virtual filesystem for the GNOME desktop) installed:

  

Cause

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