a way to reset main profile to blank but keep everything else ?
A while back I received a PC which I fixed ( hobby of mine) and installed Linux Mint on it, I am currently a windows user and haven't played around with Linux in a long time, but for testing to make sure that the system was stable I installed a bunch of games and web browsers and such,but doing so I ended up getting addicted to playing around with Linux and ended up putting some personal info via web browsing plus other things I am planing on donating this PC to the Building I live in but I am not sure how to reset everything so that the profile I use is gone and all of the web browser settings ( bookmarks and such) are also gone, I don't want any of my personal info on this system. I also would like tto keep all of the games on the system.
Is there a while to do this like removing or resetting my profile so that everything will still be there but my info will not , or will I have to reinstall Linux then reinstall everything all over again? I am currently going to be heading to work so I might not be able to get back to the forum until tomorrow so if I don't reply this is why |
when i donated to good will. i used dd to write 0's to the whole disk and re-installed fedora (too many horror stories of people who fished taxed returns/naughty photos from donated pc's).
i think casually you would only need to create a new user then delete the old user and remove the /home/shadowmeph directory. |
Boot with a LiveCD and run gparted.
Make it your b*tch. |
I guess that
it is allot safer to just reinstall the hole OS |
If you're concerned about your personal data, then I would throw a live CD/DVD/USB stick of Darik's Boot and Nuke at the disk before re-partitioning, re-formatting and re-installing.
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better yet you could even Code:
adduser NewGenericUserName Keeping the system intact. or you could do the DOD wipe on your HDD then leave it blank for them to figure it out, or better yet. Put windows 3.1 on it afterwords. |
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If you're concerned about data privacy, then you should really be over-writing the remaining info on the device. |
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bookmarks and such... what kind where/are they well yes you're right of course, but I did mod my post, as well as most do not go looking that deep into a used system. but to get rid of the bookmarks and such DOD wipes are good too. |
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Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/mount/point/verybigfile.bin bs=1M |
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