reinstall or just change name

[Colin Law]

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