All, I want to use EncFS. It is part of the distro and seems to be working on a newly created directory pair. My issue is I don't know how to re-mount the virtual filesystem. In theory I use fusermount, but what is the syntax? I've tried the obvious ### first I unmounted it just fine # fusermount -u /backup/config-rdiff/ ### Then I try to see what the args are to mount it back # man fusermount No manual entry for fusermount # fusermount --help fusermount: [options] mountpoint Options: -h print help -V print version -o opt[,opt...] mount options -u unmount -q quiet -z lazy unmount ### Then I try few things # fusermount /backup/config-rdiff/ fusermount: old style mounting not supported # fusermount fusermount: missing mountpoint argument # fusermount /backup/config-enc-raw /backup/config-rdiff/ fusermount: old style mounting not supported # fusermount /backup/config-rdiff /backup/config-enc-raw/ fusermount: old style mounting not supported Not sure what else to try. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Greg Freemyer wrote:
All,
I want to use EncFS. It is part of the distro and seems to be working on a newly created directory pair.
My issue is I don't know how to re-mount the virtual filesystem. In theory I use fusermount, but what is the syntax?
I think you're thinking about it too hard. ;) You mount it using 'encfs'. You only use fusermount to unmount the filesystem. The syntax is simple. If the encrypted data is stored in ~/.crypt, and you want to mount the unencrypted version on ~/cryptmount, you'd do this: encfs ~/.crypt ~/cryptmount -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 3/16/07, David Brodbeck
Greg Freemyer wrote:
All,
I want to use EncFS. It is part of the distro and seems to be working on a newly created directory pair.
My issue is I don't know how to re-mount the virtual filesystem. In theory I use fusermount, but what is the syntax?
I think you're thinking about it too hard. ;) You mount it using 'encfs'. You only use fusermount to unmount the filesystem.
The syntax is simple. If the encrypted data is stored in ~/.crypt, and you want to mount the unencrypted version on ~/cryptmount, you'd do this:
encfs ~/.crypt ~/cryptmount
That works, but it still seems wrong to me. The mount command is encfs and the unmount command is fusermount. You have to admit that is strange. Thanks. One other question I have is if I backup the raw (~/.crypt in your example) directory and restore it to another machine should I have any trouble remounting it and getting to my data? I'm going to try that in the next week or so, but if you know it would save me some testing. FYI: My ultimate goal is to rsync out a bunch of data to dreamhost as a DR offsite backup. By using EncFS my thought is that everything at dreamhost will be encrypted. FYI2: I'm not too concerned with performance because I'm only going to be writing backup files into the EncFS in the middle of the night. It can take a few hours and I won't notice. I'm going to do about 10GB worth tonight. If that works I'll try my big dataset of 65GB. Assuming that works I'm golden. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Greg Freemyer wrote:
That works, but it still seems wrong to me. The mount command is encfs and the unmount command is fusermount. You have to admit that is strange.
Yeah, it's a bit confusing. On my system I wrote a pair of shell scripts called 'cryptmount' and 'cryptumount' to make the process a little more automatic and intuitive.
One other question I have is if I backup the raw (~/.crypt in your example) directory and restore it to another machine should I have any trouble remounting it and getting to my data?
Nope, it'll work fine. In fact, I've sometimes burned the raw directory to a CD-R, and mounted it straight off the mounted CD. This turns out to be a pretty handy way to carry around data in a secure manner. You do have to be careful about your burning options -- Joliet doesn't like some of the filenames EncFS comes up with. Rock Ridge seems to handle them OK, though. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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