Re: Wipe available diskspace

[Narcis Garcia <informatica actiu net>]

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