GVFSD-METADATA(1)

🌈 gvfsd-metadata 💾✨

okay bestie, welcome to the User Commands page for gvfsd-metadata — literally the metadata daemon for gvfs, and it's giving backend main character energy. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

gvfs-metadata [OPTION...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So 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 they don't require the daemon to be running. lowkey important distinction, bestie. ✨

The gvfs metadata capabilities are used by the nautilus file manager, for example. slay. 🐚💖

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h, --help — prints a short help text and exits. simple, clean, iconic. 🎀
• --version — shows the version number and exits. periodt. 🔥
• -r, --replace — replaces the currently running instance. out with the old daemon, in with the new. 💀✨

🌸 EXIT STATUS 🌸

On success, 0 is returned; a non-zero failure code otherwise. that's the vibe check, no cap. 💖

🍓 FILES 🍓

• $XDG_DATA_HOME/gvfs-metadata — the directory where the gvfs metadata database files are stored. that's where the metadata lore lives. 📁🦋

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

gvfs(7), nautilus(1) — go read those too, bestie, iykyk. 🫶

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xoxo, signed off by gvfs and GVFSD-METADATA(1) — the footer didn't hand us a date, so we're not inventing one, periodt. 💜