From memory yes but the contents of your home directory are inaccessible until you enter your password via a popup. For whole drive encryption probably not.
I had configured this manually (incorrectly) in Arch a while back to have my home dir be on a separate encrypted drive.
Turns out the main drive didn’t get the memo and still had a home folder which worked fine, I thought it was working so I promptly forgot about it.
Meanwhile the encrypted drive (which had only ever been unlocked that day and never again) had maybe 10 files on it that I didn’t even know it had until I swapped the drive into a different PC.
From memory yes but the contents of your home directory are inaccessible until you enter your password via a popup. For whole drive encryption probably not.
I had configured this manually (incorrectly) in Arch a while back to have my home dir be on a separate encrypted drive.
Turns out the main drive didn’t get the memo and still had a home folder which worked fine, I thought it was working so I promptly forgot about it. Meanwhile the encrypted drive (which had only ever been unlocked that day and never again) had maybe 10 files on it that I didn’t even know it had until I swapped the drive into a different PC.