I have a directory in my home directory that is encrypted with eCryptfs. Somehow, it got corrupted, and I can’t read any of the files in the directory. I’m not inclined to try to fix it, since I have a very recent backup.
So, I copied the backup into my home directory, e.g.:
mv directory directory.corrupted
cp /mnt/backup/directory /home/user/directory
Now, when I try to use ecryptfs on the unencrypted directory I just copied over, it just mounts it without an error message, but the files become unreadable (and become readable when I unmount it). Somehow, I need to be able to tell eCryptfs that I’m starting over with this directory name and it needs to be re-encrypted.
I could, I suppose, just encrypt with a different directory name, but I have scripts, etc. that use it, and I don’t want to edit them.
As an aside I have other directories that are also encrypted with eCryptfs, and they all mount and unmount fine. This is limited to just one of my encrypted directories.
