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What are the best ways to get info on the encryption methods used on my laptop?

I have a laptop running ubuntu 10.10. In Gparted I see numerous partitions. This was installed 'I believe' using the 'encrypt home folder' option using the install disk. I am trying to determine 'as a matter of fact' since I did not do the install, which partitions are in fact encrypted, and confirm for certain whether the encryption was done using the install disk as I mentioned above. How can I determine what encryption is on what partitions? Is it disk-level or some other. Was another encryption program used besides the ubuntu installer? What method can I use which will tell me the most about the encryption method used on my computer? Thank you?

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

       fbautostart [options]

DESCRIPTION

       fbautostart(1) is an XDG complaint startup tool. This will go through the directories set up by the spec, and start all applications that
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FILES

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	   This folder contains the default user XDG dot-desktop files that will be run ( unless it's overridden by an ENV variable )

       /etc/xdg
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OPTIONS

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ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       XDG_CONFIG_HOME
	   The XDG root directory for the user's startup files, which may override the global startup files.

       XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
	   The root XDG directory, where global XDG files are maintained.

       FBXDG_DE
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