Tell me more ×  I selected "encrypt home partition" when I set
up my netbook with Ubuntu. The disk usage analyzer now reports
that twice as much space is taken up than actually is used. I
have seen this question asked a few times, but the response
typically tends to be along the lines of ".ecrypts/.Private are
your actual home drive, and is encrypted, and the one that shows
up as the home drive is virtual, it's not actually taking up
hard drive space," which perfectly identifies the problem but is
not helpful in fixing it.  Now, regardless of whether the hard
drive is actually full, the system is treating it as full. I
keep getting warnings that I have 10MB of space left; I can't
update my dropbox folder; I can't move files around efficiently;
the machine seems unhappy, etc. Is the only way to fix this to
do the risky decryption procedure that involves permanently
removing the home folder from the machine and possibly not being
able to decrypt the backup? Or is there some way to fix the disk
usage analyzer so