Yes indeed. It is file type ecryptfs. After that it seems to list a key. I hope not. /etc/mtab is world readable. Thank you for the pointers. -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. ---unknown source
>> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:19:01 -0800 (PST) >> From: Allen Brown <abr...@peak.org> >> >> Who's mounting it during boot? It isn't listed in /etc/fstab. > > What does /etc/mtab say ? > > BTW, google "ubuntu .Private folder" gives you a number of hits along the > lines of jimmythedestroyer's post. > > - Horst > >> -- >> Allen Brown abrown at peak.org >> http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ >> It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. >> --- Sir Winston Churchill >> >>> 9.04 supports an encrypted /home folder. It probably was created more >>> or less behind the scenes during install/upgrade. If your df output >>> looks like mine, your / partition is probably 3% full as well. >>> >>> Shouldn't be anything to worry about and is actually pretty cool if >>> you ask me :) >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Allen Brown <abr...@peak.org> wrote: >>>> Ubuntu 9.04 laptop >>>> Today I was going to switch it to replace a dying web server. >>>> I ran df and noticed this oddity: >>>> /home/abrown/.Private 19228276 385032 17866496 3% >>>> /home/abrown/Private >>>> >>>> And >>>> $ ls -al /home/abrown/Private /home/abrown/.Private >>>> /home/abrown/Private: >>>> total 8 >>>> drwx------ 2 abrown abrown 4096 2008-12-28 13:19 . >>>> drwxr-xr-x 56 abrown abrown 4096 2009-11-17 16:57 .. >>>> >>>> /home/abrown/.Private: >>>> total 8 >>>> drwx------ 2 abrown abrown 4096 2008-12-28 13:19 . >>>> drwxr-xr-x 56 abrown abrown 4096 2009-11-17 16:57 .. >>>> >>>> >>>> Odd. I don't remember creating this. I don't know why I would. >>>> And 3% used. Yet any way I look at it, it is empty. >>>> Does this look odd to you? >>>> -- >>>> Allen Brown abrown at peak.org >>>> http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ >>>> I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks. --- Sir Winston Churchill >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> EUGLUG mailing list >>>> euglug@euglug.org >>>> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> euglug@euglug.org >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >> > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
