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I'm running a linux server and have an encrypted partition. After a reboot, I manually log into the server, enter the passphrase and mount it at /home.

Is there a way to access the content of /home before the mount without unmounting the encrypted partition?

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You can use the --bind option of mount.

mkdir /mnt/tmproot
mount --bind / /mnt/tmproot
ls /home # Still shows contents of mounted /home partition
ls /mnt/tmproot/home # pre-mount contents of mountpoint /home dir

Additionally mounting root partition this way will give you access to mountpoint directory contents in your root partition without their mounts, whilst also leaving existing mounts in place.

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