Why does an encrypted folder totally fill my /home/ folder?

encryption home-directory ecryptfs

If you have mounted your encrypted home, the unencrypted "view" of the filesystem seems to occupy the same amount of diskspace in addition to the encrypted files, but only the encrypted files are actually occupying disk space (so, this disk space is used only once, not twice).

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