SDelete after defragmenting

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SDelete after defragmenting

Forum: Technical Topics

Creator: Quartez

Created: 2017-11-19

Updated: 2017-11-19

Quartez - 2017-11-19

I try to Securely erase free space on the host volume (in the defragmented file system) after defragmenting, but I'm afraid I will delete all data from host volume.
In help it says
sdelete [-p passes] [-z|-c [percent free]] <drive letter [...]>
So if my host volume is disk E

sdelete -p 7 -z -c E:

Will work fine for me ?
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Tulip81 - 2017-11-19

I very often use SDelete with only 1 pass,
sdelete -z C:

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- Quartez - 2017-11-19
  
  command
  
  sdelete -z C:
  
  will delete all files from C: disk or just Clean free space ?
  I was thinking I need to use -c to clean free space
  
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Tulip81 - 2017-11-19

Only free space

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