Hi, Note: Nautilus Wipe has no direct relation with Nautilus, beside it being an extension for Nautilus.
On 13/11/2015 21:31, Narcis Garcia wrote: > I'm using nautilus-wipe extension, and today I wanted to look the "Wipe > available diskspace" function. > In all phrases and in the manual only use the term "available" about > space, and I need to be very sure this is referring exclusively to > unallocated blocks, it is, space not assigned to any inode nor > filesystem working structure. > > Help should tell more about what means wiping available diskspace. I'm about to add this to the help, under *Wiping available disk space on storage media*: > Only the actually available and unused disk space will be wiped by > this operation, and no existing files will be affected. New files > created while the operation is running will not be affected either, > but files deleted in an insecure manner from the same storage medium > during the operation might be wiped. Does this look good to you, and does it answer your questions? Technically, it will also wipe free (unused/unallocated) INode space, but I can't find a not-too-technical way to say this (e.g. without using the word "inode"), and I guess for most people it isn't a useful information. Yet, I'm open to a good suggestion. BTW, if you're interested to know exactly how everything is done and all technically, I suggest you to also give a look at the tool Nautilus Wipe uses to actually do its job, secure-delete. Regards, Colomban -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
