mount.ecryptfs(8)

✨ mount.ecryptfs ✨

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for mount.ecryptfs from the eCryptfs family 💖 it lives in section 8 of the manual, and it's basically the little helper that makes mounting your encrypted stuff not a whole ordeal.

💅 NAME 💅

mount.ecryptfs — the eCryptfs mount helper. that's it, that's the job 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mount -t ecryptfs [lower directory] [ecryptfs mount point]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so mount.ecryptfs is the eCryptfs mount helper, periodt ✨ the mount utility will defer to the mount helper to do a bunch of configuration tasks for you — it's giving personal assistant energy fr fr 👑

if you'd rather do all that config yourself, use the -i option to bypass the mount helper and manually specify your mount options. your call, main character 💅

to mount eCryptfs you gotta give it two things: the lower directory (that's where your encrypted files live, like /root/crypt) and the eCryptfs mountpoint (that's where you'll see the decrypted view of those files, like /mnt/crypt). so like, same files, two vibes 🌈

mount -t ecryptfs /root/crypt /mnt/crypt

and that's the whole thing. slay 💖

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• ecryptfs(7)
• ecryptfsd(8)
• ecryptfs-manager(8)
• mount(8)
• /usr/share/doc/ecryptfs-utils/ecryptfs-faq.html
• http://ecryptfs.org/

go read those if you want the full lore, iykyk 📚✨

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

this manpage was written by William Lima <wlima.amadeus@gmail.com> for the Ubuntu system (but like, anyone can use it, no gatekeeping 💜). permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

on Debian and Ubuntu systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

and that's a wrap bestie!! this page is brought to you by ecryptfs-utils, dated May 2007 🌸 so yeah, it's vintage, it's iconic, it's mount.ecryptfs(8) — take care of her 💖🧚‍♀️