Good luck with encfs. I'm still using it as a core part of my data security and it hasn't let me down yet.

Ok, i did that and it works.

Just one more question. If I want to backup encrypted folder to DVD, is it enough to burn, for example,
/home/account2/crypt
folder?

Thank you

/home/account1/crypt

That you've been using with account1, and now you'd like to move to:

/home/account2/crypt

And start using with account2?

For that scenario, yes, it's just a simple move of the encrypted dir (plain dir should be unmounted, of course).

You could try a little experiment to see that it works as expected.

I have one question. Didn't find answer yet.

What if I want to move encoded folder to another location, other user account? is it enough to do "mv source dest"?

Thanks,
Predrag

However, each newgroups opens a new shell, so you'll possibly have to 'exit' more than once.

Works fine with Ubuntu 9.04.

#get out of X
CTRL-ALT-F1
login as yourself
SUDO init 3

#install encfs:
sudo apt-get install encfs

#set up directories...
USER=`whoami`
export USER
sudo mkdir /home/{.$USER,old-$USER}
sudo chown $USER:$USER /home/{.$USER,old-$USER}
sudo mount --bind /home/{$USER,old-$USER}

#set up encfs:
encfs /home/.$USER /home/$USER

#copy all your home files there:
mv /home/old-$USER/{*,.*/} /home/$USER

#sudo umount old-$USER
sudo rmdir old-$USER

sudo sh -c "echo test -f /home/sid/.crypt_mounted || su $USER -c 'encfs /home/.$USER /home/$USER -o kernel_cache -o nonempty'>>/etc/rc.local"

This will prompt you for your encfs password at login. If you don't provide a correct password you will still load up as usual but your home dir will be empty (and unencrypted)

I share my netbook with friends, I just reboot and let them do whatever, then reboot back as myself. All my data is secure.

Caveat: the /tmp, /var/tmp, and /var/cache folders may all have temporary data from your apps. You should ensure that these are deleted when you shut down, or you may leave some cached web data, or other app data there.

I decrypt my folder and now I have both folders
secretfolder and .secretfolder_encfs

I dont want it to be encrypted anymore and I was hoping for an easier way than move files of lesser size than the free space.

is this is the only way ?

thanks

You have a 200 GB drive (file system) that has 190 GB worth of encrypted data? (And it's encrypted with encfs.)

And now you want it to not be encrypted?

You'd have to move it all to an regular unencrypted folder, and since you only have 10 GB free, you'd have to move it 10 GB or less at a time.