I have a problem with my Linux Mint installation. So I'm thinking of backing up my files from a Linux Mint 17 live disk (which I'm using right now to post this). I'd like to back up my encfs container, but don't know how to do so without mounting it and copy the contents to an external drive. Is this possible, and how to do it?I use the following command to mount the container:encfs ~/.zzz_encfs ~/zzzBut how to tell the live disk terminal where to look for it? I cd'ed to my home directory and ran the command but it returns the error Unable to locate root directory, aborting..
Can ENCFS container be mounted from live disk?
mount;livecd;encfs
The directory ~/.zzz_encfs is located in your home directory. In the shell, ~ at the beginning of a path represents your home directory.If your live system mounts filesystems of your disk automatically, check the GUI or run cat /proc/mounts to see where they may be mounted. Usually the mount points are sudirectories of /media or subdirectories of subdirectories of /media.By default, your home directory is at the location /home/user8547 on the installed system, where user8547 is your username. If you have a separate partition for /home, your home directory is /user8547 on that partition.Once you've located your home directory, create an empty directory anywhere you like, or use the existing zzz directory in your home directory if you like. Then runencfs /path/to/home/directory/.zzz_encfs /path/to/empty/directorye.g. it may be something likeencfs /media/sda1/home/user8547/.zzz_encfs /media/sda1/home/user8547/zzz.