eCryptfs

  1. Bug #561129
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 561129

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kurapix (warren.levin) wrote : ecryptfs suck up disk space and doesn't seem to use swap

1 - Try to download some Ubuntu DVD versions with bit torrent (so it reserves space).
2 - Fill your disk to the maximum and leave something like 5GB.
3 - Wait
4 - Disk space will go to 0 (it doesn't make any sense since space has already been reserved)
5 - Ctrl+Alt+F1

There we can see some messages about ecryptfs :
ecryptfs_write_lower: octets_written [-28]; expected [4096]
ecryptfs_encrypt_page: Error Attempting to write lower page; rc = [-22]
[...]

I don't really know if it's really ecryptfs but it doesn't make any sense that disk space just get used up like this when only my firefox browser and bit torrent are open and not trying to write anything else.

While your disk space is at 0, it's slow as hell and it will swap quite much (even though your ram isn't full).