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cryx

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Registered: 2017-05-23

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Confusion about eCryptfs and mount points

I recently encrypted my users home directory using eCryptfs. I then tried to mount another eCryptfs container on top of that, which gave me the error:

 mount: Invalid argument 

and dmesg sad:

 Mount on filesystem of type eCryptfs explicitly disallowed due to known incompatibilities 

Now I tried to mount the container on another directory (which was NOT a subdirectory of home). The same error occured here.
This issue got even stanger when I successfully mounted an external drive on a subdirectory of my encrypted home. Can somebody tell me, how to use eCryptfs properly while having an encrypted home directory? Or do I misinterpret this error comming from dmesg?