From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leam Hall Subject: ecryptfs on sub-directory? Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 07:51:27 -0400 Message-ID: <51C43E3F.4030806@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-qc0-f177.google.com ([209.85.216.177]:49479 "EHLO mail-qc0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965513Ab3FULva (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jun 2013 07:51:30 -0400 Received: by mail-qc0-f177.google.com with SMTP id n1so4487886qcx.22 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 04:51:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.55] (pool-108-44-69-203.ronkva.east.verizon.net. [108.44.69.203]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id 11sm5580993qek.1.2013.06.21.04.51.28 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 21 Jun 2013 04:51:29 -0700 (PDT) Sender: ecryptfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org Hey all, sorry for the newbie question. I didn't find the answer in the docs I found. If I mount a filessystem on Linux, say /dev/sda4 as /opt, and create a directory under /opt; like /opt/backup. Can I use ecryptfs to mount /opt/backup onto itself so that just that portion of the file system is encrypted? Thanks! Leam