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WipeFreeSpace

WipeFreeSpace is a program which will securely wipe (clean, shred, fill, overwrite) the free space on the following filesystem types:

• ext2, ext3, ext4
• NTFS
• XFS
• ReiserFSv3, ReiserFSv4
• FAT12, FAT16, FAT32
• MinixFSv1, MinixFSv2
• JFS
• HFS+
• OCFS2

located in a file, on a partition or drive, just like the shred program securely wipes files.

WipeFreeSpace wipes the following things (when supported by the backing library):

• free space (space in unused blocks/clusters)
• free space in partially used blocks (also called the "slack space")
• deleted files' names and other data that can be used to undelete a file (like the journal)

WipeFreeSpace does NOT decrease the amount of available free space when working.

Read the info documentation (type 'info doc/wipefreespace.info') to get more information.

Project homepage: https://wipefreespace.sourceforge.io/.
On-line copy of the documentation: https://wipefreespace.sourceforge.io/docs/.

My related projects:
- LibSecRm,
- FMSec.

[Features]
[Compiling]
[Command-line usage]
[Reporting issues]
[Summary of changes]

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Screenshots

WipeFreeSpace in verbose mode

WipeFreeSpaceGUI2, main window

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