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[ubuntu] storing files outside of /home

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http://ubuntuforums.org – been looking all over and can't seem to find an answer for this... i recently re-installed ubuntu and enabled an encrypted home directory upon installation. i quickly realized that /home/.ecryptfs directory is the directory that holds my encrypted files, while /home is just a virtual representation of that directory. HTML Code: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9790901&postcount=8 however. my home directory is showing as only having 7GB left (on a 100GB partition). i know that it's not ACTUALLY that full, because the OS counts the data twice (once in .encryptfs, and once i (Hardware)

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Submitted by dayu on 10/16/2012

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I'm asking because of http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...24&postcount=2 and http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...98&postcount=2

Question: Can I create an encrypted directory with ecryptfs that exists outside of my home directory, which uses the same decryption credentials that my encrypted home directory uses?

Here's the situation:

Code: /dev/sda1 (SSD): / /dev/sdb1 (HDD): /home /dev/sdb2 (HDD): /var and /tmp The above works fine, but I have 80GB free on /dev/sda1 that I'd like accessible from my home directory

My machine crashed (powered down unexpectedly) recently with an 8GB thumb drive attached to it. When it came back up I was trying to delete a file in one of the folders, but it kept telling me that the filesystem on the device was read only. Googling lead me to the third post on this thread:

When I installed Lubuntu 12.04 (amd64) I had that infamous B43 firmware problem, but I was able to find a workaround.

This time, installing Lubuntu 12.10 (amd64) I wasn't able to find a solution for the B43 firmware problem.

I've tried the same steps that have worked for many other users, as you can find here http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...44&postcount=6 and here http://ubuntufor

I tried the guide here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1038949&page=11

That did not work.

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Hi, looking for a workaround here. I have a hand-me-down laptop that has a somewhat fried system board.

An HP pavilion dv6000 w/ amd64, the manifestation of the hardware problem is the usb ports are unrecognized (in windoze or ubuntu). In ubuntu, the syslog shows a constant stream of messages like this:

I have "successfully" moved my encrypted home to a separate partition using the instructions here: How can i move an encrypted home directory to another partition?

However, some files are not being copied over. Most notably, I have a directory in my old home that contains the themes I use.

I am having issue with my encrypted ecryptfs home directory after I log out and log back in. The home directory won't auto mount and I tried to execute "ecryptfs-mount-private" manually and it does not seem that it does anything.

I have to reboot the box to see my home directory again.

Any idea what is going on and how to fix that? Let me know if you need any additional logs.

Thanks

I'm currently using Kubuntu 10.04 with my home directory encrypted with ecryptfs. My home directory is automatically decrypted when I login without requiring me to enter an additional password for dm-crypt. I really want to be able to switch to OpenSUSE 11.3 but this might be a deal breaker.