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The installer invites you to do both, so I did, but home-directory encryption is making backups and recovery more complicated, and I suspect that it might be redundant.

Taymon
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For some situations, yes. Both gives you:

  1. Protection when your system is turned off through whole-disk encryption.
  2. Protection against other sudo users and applications running as root when you're logged out through home folder encryption.
  3. Your home directory gets tighter permissions when you use home folder encryption, though you can set these permissions yourself to get that benefit without encryption.

Home folder encryption is less important if you already use whole-disk encryption when you're the only user on the system, since the files are automatically decrypted anyway by the system whenever you're logged in, and you're probably going to be logged in whenever the system is turned on.

Chai T. Rex
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