http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/7673/ See my steps:
1) I go to ftp://user@ftp.site.com by nautilus and gvfs automatic mount it as directory at $HOME/.gvfs/somedir
2) I remove my home dir: rm -rf $HOME
Whats wrong?! I've removed all files on my FTP Server! OMG!

It can be fixed by moving .gvfs dir from $HOME to separate directory (for example to /usermounts or /gvfsmounts or /mnt/gvfs or some else) and creting link in $HOME if it's necessary.

[81 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #7673


]]> en-us Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:15:26 +0000 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:06:47 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7673/ i think every mounted thing should be placed under /media
with a symlink in your home]]> Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:01:26 +0000 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:23:27 +0000 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:03:55 +0000 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:09:15 +0000 /mnt/.gvfs (permissions 777)
/mnt/.gvfs/user1 (700)
/mnt/.gvfs/user2 (700)
/mnt/.gvfs/user3 (700)]]> Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:09:30 +0000
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7704/]]> Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:46:43 +0000 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:33:42 +0000 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:40:10 +0000
Second this should be reported as a bug against GVFS, NOT here on brainstorm]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:26:36 +0000 Thu, 15 May 2008 19:37:06 +0000
Ok, my first thought is why inthe world are you rm -rf $HOME, but none the less, $HOME should not contain the mount point for ANYTHING!!!

Despite the common excuse of "works as intended", this was a BAD implementation. media, including ftp, should be mounted in /media like any other storage device. This should be considered a bug.]]> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:05:47 +0000 Right, "It will remove all files on my FTP Server! OMG!"

This idea is just pure nonsense.]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:00:17 +0000
My scenario is experimenting with CIFS shares (on freenas) and when using rsync to backup my home directory (to CIF share on disk a) I suddenly find I'm also backing up a whole other CIFs share (disk b) as well. Not what was exected.

This makes the whole CIFS/SMB thing more opaque than it needs to be. Mount the shares to /mnt or /media which is where I was execting them to be when first trying this out a few days ago. Don't hide them away in the users home directory!]]> Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:32:43 +0000 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:17:21 +0000 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:15:20 +0000