Oh, nice find! Perhaps we can document our way around this bug...
-- du reports newly created files on ecryptfs as empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390833 You received this bug notification because you are a member of eCryptfs, which is subscribed to ecryptfs-utils in ubuntu. Status in eCryptfs - Enterprise Cryptographic Filesystem: In Progress Status in “ecryptfs-utils” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I'm using an encrypted home directory on Ubuntu Jaunty. When I create a new file in my home directory or copy and existing file/folder, du shows its size as zero bytes: d...@serenity ~ > dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1024 count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.114302 s, 9.2 MB/s d...@serenity ~ > du test 0 test d...@serenity ~ > ll test -rw-r--r-- 1 das das 1048576 2009-06-22 22:14 test du keeps reporting a size of zero bytes until the encrypted directory is remounted. After that, the output seems to be correct. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ecryptfs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ecryptfs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
