How to erase one of the mac's time machine data from Time capsule?

I have formatted my mac book pro and reinstall it with a new username, and the TC couldn't find the old account data, now i am backup-ing the new account, but the old account waste me lots of space in TC, how can i access and delete it, so with the file sharing system in TC, do i need to make partions on the disk drive? i scare that if TC keep backup it will erase my share files
thx

Hifeljai,
You will see your Time Capsule in the "shared" portion of your Finder window. Click on it, and you will see the "sparsebundles" named according to your two different usernames. You can at this point delete the "old" one. However, it will likely be overwritten naturally sometime in the future. In addition, if you need to access anything from the "old" sparsebundle, you can double click on it which will mount it to the side menu of your finder window. You can then search for any items you may wish to recover.

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