but I thought Ubuntu home partition encryption was
linked to your user account? Therefore if anyone can reset passwords by booting
to the recovery mode, they can then use the new password with a quick reboot &
normal login, then access your data?

If so, then of course this is only an issue for laptops or those living in high
crime areas where your desktop could be stolen.

The beauty of full disk encryption would be that the recovery mode is not
accessible until after you type in your encryption p/wd. The downside is that
you are in trouble if you forget the password!!

I wanted to know if anyone had used Truecrypt & if so is it any good? Is the
performance overhead noticeable?