Man page - ntfswipe(8)
Packages contains this manual
- ntfsls(8)
- ntfscp(8)
- lowntfs-3g(8)
- ntfs-3g(8)
- ntfsundelete(8)
- ntfscluster(8)
- mkfs.ntfs(8)
- ntfscmp(8)
- mount.lowntfs-3g(8)
- mount.ntfs(8)
- ntfsinfo(8)
- ntfsusermap(8)
- ntfsdecrypt(8)
- ntfs-3g.probe(8)
- ntfsfallocate(8)
- ntfsfix(8)
- ntfsrecover(8)
- ntfstruncate(8)
- ntfswipe(8)
- ntfsclone(8)
- ntfsresize(8)
- mkntfs(8)
- ntfscat(8)
- ntfslabel(8)
- ntfsprogs(8)
- mount.ntfs-3g(8)
- ntfssecaudit(8)
apt-get install ntfs-3g
Manual
NTFSWIPE
NAMESYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXAMPLES
BUGS
AUTHORS
AVAILABILITY
SEE ALSO
NAME
ntfswipe - overwrite unused space on an NTFS volume
SYNOPSIS
ntfswipe [ options ] device
DESCRIPTION
ntfswipe clears all or part of unused space on an NTFS volume by overwriting with zeroes or random bytes.
OPTIONS
Below is a
summary of all the options that
ntfswipe
accepts.
Nearly all options have two equivalent names. The short name
is preceded by
-
and the long name is preceded by
--
. Any single letter options, that don’t take
an argument, can be combined into a single command, e.g.
-fv
is equivalent to
-f -v
. Long named options
can be abbreviated to any unique prefix of their name.
-a
,
--all
Wipe all unused space. This may take significant time. If the option --unused-fast (or -U) is also present, the faster wiping method is used.
-b , --bytes BYTE-LIST
Define the allowed replacement bytes which are drawn randomly to overwrite the unused space. BYTE-LIST is a comma-separated list of values in range 0-255 expressed in octal, decimal or hexadecimal base.
-c , --count NUM
Define the number of times the unused space is to be overwritten. If both options --bytes and --count are set, the space is repeatedly overwritten this number of times by each of the values in the list.
-d , --directory
Wipe all the directory indexes, which may contain names of deleted files.
-f , --force
This will override some sensible defaults, such as not using a mounted volume. Use this option with caution.
-h , --help
Show a list of options with a brief description of each one.
-i , --info
Display details about unused space, without wiping anything.
-l , --logfile
Overwrite the logfile (update journal).
-m , --mft
Overwrite the unused space in the MFT (main file table, which contains the file names, and the contents of short files).
-n , --no-action
Executes the wiping process without writing to device.
-p , --pagefile
Overwrite the Windows swap space.
-q , --quiet
Suppress some debug/warning/error messages.
-s , --undel
Overwrite the space which had been allocated to a file which has been deleted recently and is still undeletable. This option is not compatible with --bytes and the replacement bytes are random ones or taken from a standard list.
-t , --tails
Overwrite the space at the end of files which is unused, but allocated because the allocations are always done by full clusters.
-u , --unused
Overwrite the space which is currently not allocated to any file (but may have been used in the past).
-U , --unused-fast
Overwrite the space which is currently not allocated to any file, trying not to overwrite the space not written to since the previous wiping.
-v , --verbose
Display more debug/warning/error messages. This option may be used twice to display even more messages.
-V , --version
Show the version number, copyright and license of ntfswipe .
EXAMPLES
Wipe out all unused space in an NTFS volume.
ntfswipe -a /dev/sda1
Wipe out all deleted file names from an NTFS volume.
ntfswipe -dms /dev/sda1
BUGS
There are no
known problems with
ntfswipe
. If you find a bug
please send an email describing the problem to the
development team:
ntfs-3g-devel@lists.sf.net
AUTHORS
ntfswipe was written by Richard Russon, Anton Altaparmakov and Yura Pakhuchiy. It was ported to ntfs-3g by Erik Larsson.
AVAILABILITY
ntfswipe
is part of the
ntfs-3g
package and is available from:
https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/wiki/
SEE ALSO
ntfs-3g (8), ntfsls (8), ntfsprogs (8)