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How to mount an encrypted home partition?

First add the passphrase

$ sudo ecryptfs-add-passphrase --fnek

Which gets me the following information:

Inserted auth tok with sig [aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa] into the user session keyring
Inserted auth tok with sig [bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb] into the user session keyring

Mounting the associated .Private directory:

$ sudo mount -t ecryptfs /media/user/66fa2d20-bb6a-231b-9a98-deac52c9282f/.ecryptfs/user/.Private /mnt/backup

A lot of questions pop up. Answer with their defaults except for

Enable filename encryption (y/n) [n]: y

Here paste the signature which has been shown before:

Filename Encryption Key (FNEK) Signature [aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]: bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb

Unmount directory

$ sudo umount /mnt/backup
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