How to Encrypt Directories/Partitions with eCryptfs on Debian 8 (Jessie) This tutorial exists for these OS versions Debian 8 (Jessie) Debian 6 (Squeeze) On this page 1 Preliminary Note 2 Installing eCryptfs 3 Encrypting a directory 4 How to automatically mount an encrypted partition at boot time 5 Links eCryptfs is a POSIX-compliant enterprise-class stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux. You can use it to encrypt partitions and also directories that don't use a partition of their own, no matter the underlying filesystem, partition type, etc. This tutorial shows how to use eCryptfs to encrypt a directory on Debian Jessie. 1 Preliminary Note In this tutorial, I will encrypt my home directory, /home/falko/ , which is located on the / partition (i.e., /home/falko/ is an ordinary directory and does not use a partition of its own). 2 Installing eCryptfs eCryptfs can easily be installed as follows: apt-get -y install...