I use a seperate partition (hda2) to store all my files, because I'm dubious about this /home thing. Anyway, I've got four regular folders, and a "private" folder.


Is there some way I can use bash to hide the private folder-- hide it from bash, konqueror, everything-- until I enter a specific command?

I know putting a . before the name makes it hidden, but ls -a or View Hidden easily shows it. I want something like a password-protected file-hider-- like "display private joeyjoejoe".

Is this possible? Is this insane? Is this already built in and so basic I'm embarassing myself?

Thanks for your help.

AFAIK, there's no way of hiding anything from the root user. If you just need to make it inaccessible by non-root users, then you'd do something like `chmod -R 0600 /path/to/directory`.

You could store these fileson a CD-RW or you could encrypt the entire partition. That's beyond me though.

Your home directory should not be navigable by other users except root. That is to say they cant see beyond the existance of /home/your username and you can't see into /home/their username.
You could change the permissions of a file/folder you own to be non-readable and non-executable to even the owner (you), but then you still have permission to change the permissions back. This may be what you want to stop programs diving into the folder.