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    I could imagine that mounting it on a sub directory of home directory could lead to security issues if the user replace the mount point with a symlink. It also doesn't scale well with multiple users. And getting it to work together with ecryptfs could be tricky. Commented Mar 25, 2015 at 18:07
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    @kasperd - Suit yourself - I don't understand where you're going with any of that. All of the things you mention should just work - you can have mountpoints of different kinds in the same tree - mounting a tmpfs to an ecryptfs shouldn't be any issue at all. Replacing a mount-point w/ a symlink won't give anyone else access to the mountpoint if its mode is 0700. And it will scale just as well as you can script it - it's a simple script, though, just comparing lines in fstab to registered ~. You can get more elaborate of course, but I don't see the need. Commented Mar 25, 2015 at 18:31