ecryptsf folder taking up 112GB
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ecryptsf folder taking up 112GB
This is my first daily-driving linux install and I've never encountered this folder before. What is ecryptsf and what's it for? Is it normal for it to be this size?
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Re: ecryptsf folder taking up 112GB
You are using home-directory encryption; /home/.ecryptfs/<username> is where in that case your actual and encrypted home directory lives, with your regular home directory /home/<username> a mere unencrypted "view", if you will, on former. I.e., you have about 112G taken by files/directories in your home directory.
Re: ecryptsf folder taking up 112GB
Has it been a week or a month since you installed it.original_af_ wrote: ⤴Thu Jan 20, 2022 6:07 am This is my first daily-driving linux install and I've never encountered this folder before. What is ecryptsf and what's it for? Is it normal for it to be this size?
Maybe you have Timeshift snaphots building up.
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Re: ecryptsf folder taking up 112GB
Hi, yes, turns out timeshift backups were building up like crazy, got that sorted out.
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Re: ecryptsf folder taking up 112GB
Did not know this, thanks!rene wrote: ⤴Thu Jan 20, 2022 6:24 am You are using home-directory encryption; /home/.ecryptfs/<username> is where in that case your actual and encrypted home directory lives, with your regular home directory /home/<username> a mere unencrypted "view", if you will, on former. I.e., you have about 112G taken by files/directories in your home directory.