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Old 08-10-2010, 02:25 PM   #1
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I need a program to completely destroy all data in free space on my hard drive


I dont want to wipe the whole drive, and i don't want to delete only particular files. I want to completely destroy all data in free space.

I've found some articles about secure-delete package for linux that would allow erasing freespace with the command 'sfill,' but I can't find it in the repositories nor through google. This would be ideal but it seems maybe it's debian only.

Is there anything like this to write over free space for OpenSUSE?
 
Old 08-10-2010, 03:04 PM   #2
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Have a look at the bcwipe utility.

Last edited by penguiniator; 08-10-2010 at 03:06 PM.
 
Old 08-10-2010, 08:19 PM   #3
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