The default setup on Linux/Ubuntu has Bitcoin storing the data in the ~/.bitcoin
folder, which is usually not encrypted with TrueCrypt.
Suppose I do now want to rely on the internal Bitcoin encryption system, but instead want to save the wallet to disk on using TrueCrypt encryption. Currently, I have a separate TrueCrypt data file, that I mount to a partition, copy files from it to ~/.bitcoin
, and when I'm finished, I copy the files back to the truecrypt volume, and shred+delete the copies on ~/.bitcoin
.
This is bothersome and error prone.
Can I configure Bitcoin to only take the wallet from /media/trucrypt
, but keep the blockchain data in ~/.bitcoin
?
/media/trucrypt
and then bind mount to~/.bitcoin
withmount -B /media/trucrypt ~/.bitcoin
?