gvfsd-metadata(1)

gvfsd-metadata1

Metadata daemon for gvfs

Usage

gvfs-metadata [OPTION ...]

Overview

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 don't 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

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 11
  5. 12–13
  6. Arch

From gvfs 1.62.0-3 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.