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Old 08-12-2008, 12:01 PM   #1
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Any way to abort ntfswipe in the middle of wiping?


I didn't think it would take a long time to wipe it 30 times... Doing a rough estimate I think it will take more than 2 days. Any chance I can bail out now? I remember last time I tried that I couldn't mount it. I guess I wouldn't mind too much if I had to wait that long but it would be nice if I didn't. I did use --all. For example, what if I were to hit ctrl c (or close the term) during the wipe_directory dialogue?

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Old 08-12-2008, 01:33 PM   #2
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I have no idea...

Going by the description I found, of the program:
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You can use it to make sure you the data of an erased file is no longer there (note: there may be physical ways to restore that data! use it on your own risk). It also fills the unused spaces with zeros, so you can use it before backing up the file system, so it will compress better (you don't need that if you are using ntfsclone).
It seems that it will probably wreck your allocation tables if you abort it part-way through. I would just let it run.
 
Old 08-12-2008, 02:23 PM   #3
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Ok, thanks for the post.
 
  


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