Man1 - gvfsd-metadata.1
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NAME
gvfsd-metadata - Metadata daemon for gvfs
SYNOPSIS
gvfs-metadata [OPTION…]
DESCRIPTION
gvfsd-metadata is a daemon acting as a write serialiser to the internal gvfs metadata storage. It is autostarted by GIO clients when they make metadata changes. Read operations are done by client-side GIO code directly, and dont require the daemon to be running.
The gvfs metadata capabilities are used by the nautilus file manager, for example.
OPTIONS
-h, –help
Prints a short help text and exits.
–version
Shows the version number and exits.
-r, –replace
Replace the currently running instance.
EXIT STATUS
On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.
FILES
*$XDG_DATA_HOME*/gvfs-metadata
The directory where the gvfs metadata database files are stored
SEE ALSO
*gvfs*(7), *nautilus*(1)