a .fuse file that won't delete?

[jerome1232]

So today I was cleaning up my data drive and I tried to delete a folder, nautilus spat an error at me saying the folder wasn't empty.

I investigate and it has a .fuseblahblahblah file owned by root in there, okay so I sudo rm -rf it and it gives me the same error.

I sudo rm -f the .fuse file and it recreates itself incrementing the last number up by one.

When I checked what type of file it is, it's the original avi file I had in this folder, playable in totem and everything.

Any idea what's going on? Here's a little example to show you what I mean

jeremy@psion:/media/backup/NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 2 [2009] R5 Line Xvid (Multi Subs) [StB]$ ls -la
total 713892
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root         0 2009-07-23 09:14 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12288 2009-07-23 08:55 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 731011072 2009-07-17 18:55 .fuse_hidden0000004800000005


jeremy@psion:/media/backup/NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 2 [2009] R5 Line Xvid (Multi Subs) [StB]$ file .fuse_hidden0000004800000005 
.fuse_hidden0000004800000005: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 640 x 272, 25.00 fps, video: XviD, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (stereo, 48000 Hz)


jeremy@psion:/media/backup/NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 2 [2009] R5 Line Xvid (Multi Subs) [StB]$ sudo rm .fuse_hidden0000004800000005 
[sudo] password for jeremy: 


jeremy@psion:/media/backup/NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 2 [2009] R5 Line Xvid (Multi Subs) [StB]$ ls -la
total 713892
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root         0 2009-07-23 09:19 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12288 2009-07-23 08:55 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 731011072 2009-07-17 18:55 .fuse_hidden0000004800000006


jeremy@psion:/media/backup/NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 2 [2009] R5 Line Xvid (Multi Subs) [StB]$ file .fuse_hidden0000004800000006 
.fuse_hidden0000004800000006: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 640 x 272, 25.00 fps, video: XviD, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (stereo, 48000 Hz)
jeremy@psion:/media/backup/NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 2 [2009] R5 Line Xvid (Multi Subs) [StB]$ cd ../
jeremy@psion:/media/backup$ sudo rm -rf NIGHT\ AT\ THE\ MUSEUM\ 2\ \[2009\]\ R5\ Line\ Xvid\ \(Multi\ Subs\)\ \[StB\]/
rm: cannot remove directory `NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 2 [2009] R5 Line Xvid (Multi Subs) [StB]': Directory not empty


jeremy@psion:/media/backup$ :(

[mcduck]

Fuse is used for virtual filesystems, and is used for example when mounting NTFS drives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace

As such, the file really shouldn't be removable. Most likely it will disappear on it's own, when you remount the drive if not before.

[jerome1232]

It seems I posted for help to soon, I figured out how to check what process has a file open, using fuser -m /path/to/file

I closed the program and all is well.