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Neptunno
Asked: 2012-06-05 12:52:41 +0800 CST

How to check if your home folder and swap partition are encrypted using terminal? [duplicate]

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I installed Ubuntu 12.04 a few days ago but strangely I seem to have skipped the part about choosing to encrypt home folder. Now if it is encrypted I do not know what is the encryption key. How do I check if it is really encrypted? (and also the swap partition).

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  1. Best Answer

    Open terminal and type ls -A /home. There should be a .ecryptfs folder, if you have encryption of your home folder.

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  2. This is how to check if swap partition is encrypted:

    sudo blkid | grep swap

    and should check for an output similar to

    /dev/mapper/cryptswap1: UUID="95f3d64d-6c46-411f-92f7-867e92991fd0" TYPE="swap"

    If instead of cryptswap1 there is something like a usual drive (e.g. /dev/sda4) then swap area is not encrypted.

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