Curiosity about FileVault accounts

I'm looking at my volume structure and cleaning up some space issues with Monolingual (4GB had crept back in since I last ran that) and happened to notice that if I Get Info on my User home folder for the one account I have that is FileVaulted, I get a silly response like 50kB when not logged in, which can't be right. That leads me to think that the actual files are stored in some other place, I believe as a disk image .dmg file.
Just as a curiosity, does anyone know where those files are kept? Apparently that place is not in the User folder?
Thanks

SillyWilly wrote:
While logged in to a FileVault account a .mike folder exists with the sparseimage in it.
ok, that it correct - I never noticed this before. but that directory is ONLY created when you are logged in into a filevaulted account. it's not present when you log out. the OP is asking about the size of a filevaulted home directory when viewed from a different account so that .mike folder would not be present.
The actual way to find out the size on the disk while not logged in would be to use this command from the terminal:
sudo du -h -d 1 /Users
yes, that will work.

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