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Mount over itself #864

Anuskuss started this conversation in General
Sep 1, 2024 · 2 comments · 1 reply
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Is it safe to mount the decrypted directory over the encrypted one? I would like to only have a single folder but I'm not sure if it's safe. Will it (in the worst case) just confuse the driver or will it outright damage my data?

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How will you even achieve that? gocryptfs outright refuses to mount the cipherdir on itself:

$ gocryptfs -nonempty cipherdir cipherdir
Mountpoint "/path/to/cipherdir" would shadow cipherdir "/path/to/cipherdir", this is not supported
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I'm sure you can make it happen somehow I'm just interested in the overall risk.

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It's not supported as it would make it more complicated for gocryptfs to access the encrypted files. See also: #718
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