When I installed the system I went ahead and added the private/ecryptfs feature.
However, I have never actively (or at least "awaringly") used it. I don't know if it is being used passively or if it contains any of my important data that I cannot already otherwise access.
There is also a problem with space constantly reducing. I'm losing HDD space and I'm not aware of what is causing it. I've tried clearing caches, tmp, things like that, disabling internet, not running applications that would tend to eat at the hard drives. But no luck. And the space free is being very weird. A few days ago I had 700M remaining on my "/" partition (it's a 19G (almost 20G) partition), then a day later I had several gigs free but I did nothing, then another day later it was back to 800M or 700M free. Something very fishy is going on here.
Regardless, my focus on this thread is that dang ".ecryptfs".
Can I get rid of it *without* losing data?
Disk usage analyzer, partition with a little over 19G:
/home is using 20G ...somehow... (and on a 19G partition?!) weird.
The main user account home is using 9.7G ...the ".ecryptfs" is using 10.2G.
I really do not want that 10.2G to be used just for the sake of some shady ecrypt feature.
Please help. Thanks!
Edit - That partition is now down to 260M free! It's going fast. Please help soon. Thank you!
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