From 14dac373c27aca96e341ac74ca750cbf7a6ae5eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakob Unterwurzacher Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 15:27:40 +0100 Subject: MANPAGE: add fstab example https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/issues/497 --- Documentation/MANPAGE.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/MANPAGE.md b/Documentation/MANPAGE.md index 310f27a..7ac0a1b 100644 --- a/Documentation/MANPAGE.md +++ b/Documentation/MANPAGE.md @@ -579,6 +579,14 @@ Mount an encrypted view of joe's home directory using reverse mode: gocryptfs -init -reverse /home/joe gocryptfs -reverse /home/joe /home/joe.crypt +Adding this line to `/etc/fstab` will mount `/tmp/cipher` to `/tmp/plain` on boot, using the +password in `/tmp/passfile`. Use `sudo mount -av` to test the line without having +to reboot. Adjust the gocryptfs path acc. to the output of the command `which gocryptfs`. +Do use the `nofail` option to prevent an unbootable system if the gocryptfs mount fails (see +the `-nofail` option for details). + + /tmp/cipher /tmp/plain fuse./usr/local/bin/gocryptfs nofail,allow_other,passfile=/tmp/password 0 0 + EXIT CODES ========== -- cgit v1.2.3