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Ramon Suarez
Asked: 2013-05-15 07:01:01 +0800 CST

Does encrypting the hard drive affect file sync with programs like Dropbox, Ubuntu One, Spider Oak, Insync, and others?

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For the last few months I've been having a lot of problems syncing with two computers that I reinstalled and encrypted the drives. It is happening with all the programs I mention in the subject. Can the encryption of the disk be the cause of the problem?

My encrypted SSD uses LUKS version 1, LVM2 PV

Update: My home does use ecryptfs. This is the relevant line of df -T:

/home/ramon/.Private ecryptfs 118659356 86991664 25633468 78% /home/ramon

ubuntu-one

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    There is a bug report which may be relevant, suggesting that some encrypted filesystems don't handle inotify events properly (and hence the syncronisation daemon doesn't detect changes to files, only differences it finds when it scans on startup).

    It's unclear from the bug report whether this has been resolved or what the current status is, I'm afraid.

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