reinstall or just change name

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23 January 2015 at 10:12, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I am selling my little laptop.  Should I reinstall the operating system,
> > which I presume would be a better way to remove my files (albeit
> imperfect)
> > or should I just change the user name/password?
>
> I would re-install, otherwise how can you be sure that all your
> information has been removed?  Even if you remove your home directory
> you may have put stuff elsewhere and there will be all sorts of data
> in system logs and so on.
>
> Colin
>
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Thanks for the advice.


garyk
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