Re: [Trisquel-users] Possibly new user. Lots of noob questions

[moxalt]

Does anyone know how home directory encryption works in Trisquel? In my case, I
set up my partitions manually in netinstall. I have one partition for root
(formatted with ext4) in /dev/sda1 taking up 490GB. I then have one swap
partition in /dev/sda2 taking up the rest. I selected 'encrypt home directory'
in the options. The only thing I can gather from looking around the filesystem
is this mysterious '.ecryptfs' thing in /home. What is it? How does Trisquel
encrypt/decrypt a section of an ext4 partition at a time? Or has it actually
created an encrypted partition behind my back, which doesn't show up somehow?