I am using Gnome EncFS Manager [1] on Ubuntu 13.10. If I create an encrypted folder (known as a stash) and an unencrypted mountpoint, both in the Home folder, it works. For example, ~/test-encrypted
and ~/test-mountpoint
.
However, I cannot create a mountpoint in the /media/myusername/
folder (where USB drives and the like are mounted).
I have tried:
- mounting to a non-existent folder, e.g.
/media/myusername/newfolder
- creating a folder
/media/myusername/createdfolder
and selecting that as a mountpoint
Both result in the following error message, even though the mountpoint is empty or does not exist:
The mount folder is not empty.
Permissions for the folders are as follows:
/media$ ls -la
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 11 09:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Dec 11 10:26 ..
drwxr-x---+ 5 root root 4096 Dec 17 10:29 username
/media$ cd username
/media/username$ ls -la
total 17
drwxr-x---+ 5 root root 4096 Dec 17 10:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 11 09:47 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 username username 4096 Dec 11 09:49 attemptedmountpoint
drwxr-xr-x 19 username username 4096 Nov 22 11:52 workingmountpoint
Do I need set special permissions on the parent folder /media/myusername
or on the new folder I want as a mountpoint? Or is there something else I should do?
[1] A GUI for EncFS mounting, currently installable via PPA from the link above.
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