Manual Deletion of user account home file

[Gannas]

Hi again all! Well since I'm very new at this I've made a blunder. I added then deleted a account to my server, but of course the /home directory for that user is still listed. How do I go about removing that /home directory for that deleted user.

Thank you!

[mikewhatever]

Use 'sudo delluser --remove-home username', or even 'sudo deluser --remove-all-files username'.

[bab1]

To remove the directory you simply do this at the terminal prompt

sudo rm -f /home/<directory_name_you_are_deleting>

This can be dangerous if you select the wrong directory to delete so be careful. To see all the directories in /home you can use this command from the terminal

ls -l /home

[Gannas]

Thank you for the response gang! But it doesn't seem to have worked. I think I should also say this is a fresh install of 12.04 and I'm using a ssh. Here's what I got when I put those commands.

gannas1@HS1920ESGW:~$ ls -l /home
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 eric eric 4096 Apr 8 14:41 eric
drwxr-xr-x 4 gannas1 gannas1 4096 Apr 8 15:15 gannas1
drwxr-xr-x 2 eric eric 4096 Apr 8 14:40 username
gannas1@HS1920ESGW:~$ sudo deluser --remove-home username
[sudo] password for gannas1:
/usr/sbin/deluser: The user `username' does not exist.
gannas1@HS1920ESGW:~$ sudo deluser --remove-all-files username
/usr/sbin/deluser: The user `username' does not exist.
gannas1@HS1920ESGW:~$ sudo re -f /home/username
sudo: re: command not found
gannas1@HS1920ESGW:~$


Yes, since I'm new to Ubuntu, I was playing around when I made the user "username". So what should I do now? Thank you again for the help.

[Impavidus]

Clearly, user "username" doesn't exist. His home directory, /home/username, still exists but is owned by user eric (at least, that's the name belonging to it. There might be a mix-up of usernames and usedIDs) But if you're positive you don't want to keep eny files in /home/username, try

sudo rm -rf /home/username

(You used sudo re -f. This gave your error)
(Careful: sudo rm-rf is a very dangerous command. It can easely destroy your system)

[Gannas]

Thank you! That did the trick. Here's the proof!

gannas1@HS1920ESGW:~$ sudo rm -rf /home/username
[sudo] password for gannas1:
gannas1@HS1920ESGW:~$ ls -l /home
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 eric eric 4096 Apr 8 14:41 eric
drwxr-xr-x 4 gannas1 gannas1 4096 Apr 8 15:15 gannas1
gannas1@HS1920ESGW:~$