Re-owning a system to pass on

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Peter,

Another thing to consider is that, once you have removed your personal
account from the computer, the contents of the files will still be
there. Most people don't go digging around a computers free drive
space looking for juicy portions of data files.

There is command in Ubuntu's package repositories called "bleachbit".
Here is what the blurb is:

BleachBit deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain
privacy, and remove junk. It removes cache, Internet history, temporary
files, cookies, and broken shortcuts.

It handles cleaning of Adobe Reader, Bash, Beagle, Epiphany, Firefox,
Flash, GIMP, Google Earth, Java, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Opera, RealPlayer,
rpmbuild, Second Life Viewer, VIM, XChat, and more.

Beyond simply erasing junk files, BleachBit wipes free disk space (to hide
previously deleted files for privacy and to improve compression of
images), vacuums Firefox databases (to improve performance without
deleting data), and securely shreds arbitrary files.

I haven't used it myself. In the past I used dban to wipe drives
(completely) and now use its successor, aban (
https://aban.derobert.net/ )

HTH,


Ian


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