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date: 2009-01-17
modified: 2017-12-28
reading time: 1 min.
category: software
tags: C

This program takes filenames as arguments. It overwrites the contents of these files with zeros, replaces the filename with a random one and then unlinks the files.

It requires a C development environment and the make program.

The source code is available from the github repo.

Warning

It will not work on e.g. log-structured file systems or copy-on-write file systems. On such file systems there is no guarantee that writing to the beginning of a file actually overwrites the same physical area that the content originally was in. This probably includes SSD and flash drives.


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