Manual partition of 2 drives with encryption

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Hi,

I bought a used PC and a used GPU and want to install Manjaro on it (encrypted).

I installed it before to test all the parts and everything works fine. I want to install it now encrypted.

My drive configuration is like this:
SATA SSD 128GB : is / and also the bootable drive that came with the PC
NVME Drive 1TB from the old Laptop (only connectable in a way that is sadly not bootable): is /home

I installed it via manual partiton and encrypted / and /home with a different key, but at the start of my pc i only had to input the / key and when i logged in /home was allready mounted without inputting the different password.

My question is: Is that normal that /home mounts without inputting the password even if it is encrypted? Does Linux automatically mount and enters the pw on boot because /home is necessary? Shouldn’t I have to enter a pw first or am I missing something?

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The main question is: what is your current configuration? Your scenario is possible – you unlock / then system can automatically load keys for /home from /. dm-crypt/Encrypting a non-root file system - ArchWiki

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Don’t really know what you mean by configuration? If you mean what kind of encryption, then whatever the manjaro Installer gives you

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Mainly what parameters you give to your container in /etc/crypttab.