Thanks for the help improvement. Your explanation makes it clear for me, and I hope for other non native english speakers. The language you use for the help adding is good for everyone. I suggest one more change: Instead of «actually available + unused disk space» Use simply «unused disk space»
Thanks again. El 14/11/15 a les 15:08, Colomban Wendling ha escrit: > 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
