Erasure
Erasure is a program that overwrites empty space on disk.
Documentation:
[https://github.com/Muhammd/Erasure/raw/master/Erasure.pdf)
The empty space on disks can contain sensitive data and information that can be recovered with recovery software and forensics, this can be security and privacy risk.
To protect privacy and security the remaining data on empty space on disks has to be overwritten.
Features
- It is safe, does not overwrite existing files, and uses operating system for overwrite.
- Can be used on different file systems and operating systems, as NTFS EXT4 FAT Windows Linux.
- Different options can be specified, as block size, number of files, quantity of data.
- It is free and open source with general public licence.
Example
// Write 10 files and 10Mb data, on Windows
Erasure -files:10 -data:10mb -path:c:\
// Write random data, block size 512 bytes on Linux
Erasure -rand -block:512 -files:10 -data:10mb -path:/mnt/usbdisk/
// Run directly Erasure.c source code with Tiny C compiler
tcc -run Erasure.c -h