securefs(1)

🌸 securefs(1) — the group chat version 🌸

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for securefs, living in section 1 of the General Commands Manual (that's the manual name, iykyk — commands you type in your shell go in section 1 💅). Sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

securefs — it's a filesystem in userspace with transparent authenticated encryption. no cap. the encryption is transparent (you don't have to do anything special) and authenticated (it checks that nobody messed with your data). iconic behaviour, honestly.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

securefs [OPTION...]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you just run securefs with some options and let it cook 🧚

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea ☕: securefs mounts a regular directory onto a mount point.

and then? the mount point just appears as a regular filesystem. like, a normal one. you can read, write, and create files, directories, and symbolic links in there like it's nothing. main character energy fr fr.

meanwhile, backstage, the underlying directory gets automatically updated to contain the encrypted and authenticated contents. it's giving "effortless on the outside, encrypted on the inside" 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h, --help — shows you the help information. when in doubt, ask for help, that's growth 💖
• m, mount — mount an existing filesystem. your filesystem is already there, you just wanna bring it out into the world ✨
• c, create — create a new filesystem. baby's first secure filesystem, so cute 🎀
• chpass — change the password of an existing filesystem. glow-up for your credentials 🔐
• fix — try to fix errors in an existing filesystem. it tries. bestie, note the word try — no promises, it's doing its best 😭
• v, version — show the version of the program. know your era 🦋
• i, info — display information about the filesystem. gossip about your own filesystem, we love a self-aware queen 👑

heads up: those option names are written exactly how the original has them — m, mount, c, create, chpass, fix, v, version, i, info. no dashes were added, no dashes were removed. we do not editorialize the flags in this house 🫶

✨ AUTHOR ✨

securefs is written by Siyuan Ren <netheril96@gmail.com> 💜

this manual page was written by Yanhao MO for the Debian project (but may be used by others). shoutout to Yanhao, we appreciate the documentation labour 🙈

and that's the whole page, bestie! 🎀 this was securefs(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated August 27, 2018 — so yes, it's a little vintage, but vintage is just classic with a better filter ✨ go forth and mount responsibly, ily 💖🌈