How to disable gvfsd and fuse ?

[KarlD]

After boot I get a mount point created in my home directory: ~/.gvfs
which has permission:
dr-x------ 2 pdl pdl 4096 2010-01-23 20:18 .gvfs

% mount | grep gvfs

gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/pdl/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon
(rw,nosuid,nodev,user=pdl)

Running cp -ax or tar on the home directory as root fails
since .gvfs is not a "normal" directory

How can I prevent this mount point from being created ?
Is there a way to disable gvsd or gvfs-fuse-daemon from
starting ? I searched among the start scripts but could not
find the start scripts for these services. Is it the KDE session
manager that launches these processes? (I'm running
MD 2010.0)

I can umount the gvfs mount point after boot but as I don't know what
fuse and gvsd is useful for I would prefer to disable these services
permanently.

[Cat22]

try going into mcc -> software install and uninstall the fuse stuff.
I dont think you'll find anything depending on it, i think its mostly unused
fuse == file system in user space
Cat22