Comments on Encrypt Your Data With EncFS on Debian 7 (Wheezy)

EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to provide the filesystem interface. It is a pass-through filesystem, not an encrypted block device, which means it is created on top of an existing filesystem. This tutorial shows how you can use EncFS on Debian Wheezy to encrypt your data.

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By: Sepp
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Thank you very much for this How-To

I use it with grive (https://github.com/Grive/grive) to store my private data on Google Drive secured:

 My grive directory would be ~/grive so I did

mkdir -p ~/grive/safe 

mkdir -p ~/safe

encfs ~/grive/safe ~/safe

So if I want to have private data on Google Drive I put it in ~/safe and a script on next login will sync it.  

By: Sven
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It is important that the user who executes the < >encfs command is a member of the fuse group. Otherwise you will get an error message saying that you have no permission to modify /dev/fuse.