Why is /home twice as big as expected?

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I was checking my disk usage today, and ran the following commands (using sudo so I didn't get "permission denied")

$sudo du -hs /home
26G /home

$sudo ls -la /home
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Dec 27 2017 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Oct 1 17:39 ..
drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 27 2017 .ecryptfs
drwx------ 53 paper paper 12288 Oct 6 14:38 paper`

$sudo du -hs /home/*
13G /paper

Why is my /home directory exactly twice the size of my user directory, which looks like the only thing in /home?

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I was checking my disk usage today, and ran the following commands (using sudo so I didn't get "permission denied")

$sudo du -hs /home
26G /home

$sudo ls -la /home
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Dec 27 2017 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Oct 1 17:39 ..
drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 27 2017 .ecryptfs
drwx------ 53 paper paper 12288 Oct 6 14:38 paper`

$sudo du -hs /home/*
13G /paper

Why is my /home directory exactly twice the size of my user directory, which looks like the only thing in /home?

filesystems disk-usage

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I was checking my disk usage today, and ran the following commands (using sudo so I didn't get "permission denied")

$sudo du -hs /home
26G /home

$sudo ls -la /home
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Dec 27 2017 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Oct 1 17:39 ..
drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 27 2017 .ecryptfs
drwx------ 53 paper paper 12288 Oct 6 14:38 paper`

$sudo du -hs /home/*
13G /paper

Why is my /home directory exactly twice the size of my user directory, which looks like the only thing in /home?

filesystems disk-usage

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I was checking my disk usage today, and ran the following commands (using sudo so I didn't get "permission denied")

$sudo du -hs /home
26G /home

$sudo ls -la /home
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Dec 27 2017 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Oct 1 17:39 ..
drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 27 2017 .ecryptfs
drwx------ 53 paper paper 12288 Oct 6 14:38 paper`

$sudo du -hs /home/*
13G /paper

Why is my /home directory exactly twice the size of my user directory, which looks like the only thing in /home?

filesystems disk-usage

filesystems disk-usage

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Try executing shopt dotglob in that same shell.

Chances are that dotglob is off, which causes * expansion (globbing) to not include files and directories the names of which begin with . (including the special directory entries . and ..).

Thus, when you run du -hs /home it counts everything in that directory, but du -hs /home/* expands to only du -hs /home/paper.

Since presumably /home/.ecryptfs contains the encrypted data, it makes sense that it would be about the same size as the decrypted data. Therefore, the files effectively get counted twice, but only when you point du at the parent directory.

If you shopt -s dotglob to turn on the dotglob setting in that shell session, then run sudo du -hs /home/* again, you will likely see that it shows as the same size as if you run sudo du -hs /home.

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Try executing shopt dotglob in that same shell.

Chances are that dotglob is off, which causes * expansion (globbing) to not include files and directories the names of which begin with . (including the special directory entries . and ..).

Thus, when you run du -hs /home it counts everything in that directory, but du -hs /home/* expands to only du -hs /home/paper.

Since presumably /home/.ecryptfs contains the encrypted data, it makes sense that it would be about the same size as the decrypted data. Therefore, the files effectively get counted twice, but only when you point du at the parent directory.

If you shopt -s dotglob to turn on the dotglob setting in that shell session, then run sudo du -hs /home/* again, you will likely see that it shows as the same size as if you run sudo du -hs /home.

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Try executing shopt dotglob in that same shell.

Chances are that dotglob is off, which causes * expansion (globbing) to not include files and directories the names of which begin with . (including the special directory entries . and ..).

Thus, when you run du -hs /home it counts everything in that directory, but du -hs /home/* expands to only du -hs /home/paper.

Since presumably /home/.ecryptfs contains the encrypted data, it makes sense that it would be about the same size as the decrypted data. Therefore, the files effectively get counted twice, but only when you point du at the parent directory.

If you shopt -s dotglob to turn on the dotglob setting in that shell session, then run sudo du -hs /home/* again, you will likely see that it shows as the same size as if you run sudo du -hs /home.

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Try executing shopt dotglob in that same shell.

Chances are that dotglob is off, which causes * expansion (globbing) to not include files and directories the names of which begin with . (including the special directory entries . and ..).

Thus, when you run du -hs /home it counts everything in that directory, but du -hs /home/* expands to only du -hs /home/paper.

Since presumably /home/.ecryptfs contains the encrypted data, it makes sense that it would be about the same size as the decrypted data. Therefore, the files effectively get counted twice, but only when you point du at the parent directory.

If you shopt -s dotglob to turn on the dotglob setting in that shell session, then run sudo du -hs /home/* again, you will likely see that it shows as the same size as if you run sudo du -hs /home.

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answered 19 mins ago

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Try executing shopt dotglob in that same shell.

Chances are that dotglob is off, which causes * expansion (globbing) to not include files and directories the names of which begin with . (including the special directory entries . and ..).

Thus, when you run du -hs /home it counts everything in that directory, but du -hs /home/* expands to only du -hs /home/paper.

Since presumably /home/.ecryptfs contains the encrypted data, it makes sense that it would be about the same size as the decrypted data. Therefore, the files effectively get counted twice, but only when you point du at the parent directory.

If you shopt -s dotglob to turn on the dotglob setting in that shell session, then run sudo du -hs /home/* again, you will likely see that it shows as the same size as if you run sudo du -hs /home.

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