Mounting an ecryptfs elsewhere

[Markus Schönhaber]

14.04.2011 10:43, Markus Schönhaber:

> 13.04.2011 23:56, Todd A. Jacobs:
> 
>> I have an old ecryptfs-encrypted home directory that I'd like to mount on a
>> new system on a different mountpoint than my home directory. The man pages
>> are somewhat confusing on this issue, and trying to mount directly with
>> "sudo mount -t ecrytpdir mountpoint" leads to some unexpected menus about
>> ciphers--and I really, really don't want to hose this directory by accident.
>>
>> How should one go about this in a non-destructive way?
> 
> What I do is kind of ugly but since I do this very rarely, I haven't yet
> bothered to find a better solution.

<http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2011/04/introducing-ecryptfs-recover-private.html>

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Regards
  mks