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.

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


]]> en-us Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:15:26 +0000 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:43:52 +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 Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:33:53 +0000 it's necessary, for example, to clean terminal server of old "homes" or to make fresh home profile for some users.]]> Wed, 19 May 2010 20:48:37 +0000 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:07:29 +0000 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 08:51:42 +0000
"First the example is flawed, why would you remove your $HOME?"
-> If you use a remote system, even if only for a day of two, you do some work on it, you log in to websites and stuff, you may at one point leave this system for good. Consider you want to remove any traces of your private stuff, so that no BOFH can log into your email account (or anything else). How would you do that?

"OK, and what if it's mounted under /mnt/gvfs/*, and I do a rm -rf /?"
-> I agree that this is a dangerous thing to do, but this is equally dangerous on ANY Linux distribution and should be taught to anyone using a Linux system before. Being discussed here is the danger of a special feature, available in only a subset of all installed Linux systems. You would agree that someone knowing how to use KDE should be able to work with GNOME without the risk of doing what we are discussing, wouldn't you?

"Situation what you described is real? I think rm -rf default don't remove files from other file system."
It did in my case (Ubuntu 11.04). Later I noticed that --one-file-system exists, but only few systems support this, so it's not very well-known (or is it?). At the least, it's not the default setting.

"Why the hell are you deleting your home directory?"
See above.

Some context: I'm not new to Linux in a way that I wouldn't know about symlinks and mount points, and the concept of one global file system containing all mounted drives and shares. I know about the dangers of "rm -rf /". However, I would not even be able to tell apart one distribution from another, and I assume that a range of Linux users can be assigned to this category. In this view, the pure concept of *automatically*, *non-interactively* mounting network shares in a *hidden* folder in your *home* directory is ultimate danger for any network-accessible data, as long as this is not part of all Linux distributions (which will most probably never be the case).

Last but not least, I agree that this is a GNOME/GVFS bug and not an Ubuntu one, but there's not much of a discussion in that GNOME bug and I wanted to put my thoughts some place where they might actually be read.]]> Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:43:52 +0000