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

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

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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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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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