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How do I disable the Home encryption offered during install?

I have installed Ubuntu as a virtual machine on my Windows machine. During installation I selected to use home directory data encryption. Now I have a problem that I am running out of disk space on my virtual machine. Disk Usage Analyzer tool shows that .ecryptfs folder occupies the same amount of disk space as my home directory. What do I have to do to get rid of this directory and would it be safe?

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    .ecryptfs is using the same amount of space as your home folder because it is your (actual) home folder. The data is not duplicated. ~/.ecryptfs contains the encrypted files, and ubuntu mounts it over your ~ and decrypts the files on the fly. – petergil Feb 11 '11 at 13:23

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