Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4348 mails)

[Curtis Rey <crrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, did a clean install of 8.1.  However, I am all but sure I formatted all 
the drives and renamed the partitions.  When I went into my /home/<user> 
directory I was surprised to see that all the previous files and directories 
were still in place.  

Now, I might have forgotten to tell it to format the /home partition, and then 
also got lucky and chose the same partition that /home was on in the previous 
8.0 version, or does the install now have a function of saving current user 
data and re-installing it?  I'm not sure, but doubt that the user data was 
saved and reinstalled.  

So, my question.  Can I delete/remove my users account and recreate it (as 
root of course) and be assured that the previous /home/<user> directory will 
be deleted/overwritten?  I would like to start fresh since some of the things 
in the previous (and now present) user account/directory are left over 
configs and preferences from the old 8.0 account.  I would like to use the 
same user name and password.

TIA, Curtis