Recent content by tateu

You have a slight misunderstanding of how Eraser works. It does not overwrite clusters, per se. It creates a ton of temp files to fill the available free space of the drive, it does not read the $Bitmap or MFT to create a cluster map and so it does not write directly to the free clusters...

OFFRENT, Did you empty the trash first? If the files are in the recycle bin they may not (and probably do not) get overwritten by a freespace wipe.

On my 900MHz PIII (512MB Ram) Eraser estimates 1480 minutes to do a 35 pass wipe using only the Free Space option on a 40Gb NTFS partition. It would take a lot longer if I had selected the cluster tip option.

On line 64 of EraserInternalDll.h, change ERASER_MAX_FILESIZE to whatever size you want. Now that I am looking closer at this, it's not as bad as I originally thought. For some reason, I had read the original value and thought it was creating temp files of 4MB each but I misread the number...

They can cause problems on NTFS formatted drives, though. The fact that there are so many of them can, in certain situations, cause the MFT to grow, possibly fragmenting it. On one of my drives, before a free space wipe, my MFT was ~385MB contiguous. After a free space wipe, it had grown to...

ok, so I'm a liar. I did not give up and finally got it compiled and (it seems to be) working. Wow, that was a pain in the ass. I am going to start the process again from scratch this weekend and see if I can document my steps and I'll post them back here when I'm done, just in case someone...

Thanks for the info, but I have come to the conclusion that it is just too complicated for me. I don't really use Linux very often and uclibc is a nightmare. I'm running Debian, so I first used apt-get to install uclibc. I didn't know where to go from there, but then I found a line in the...

I am using Debian (kernel 2.4.27 and 2.6*) and gcc v3.3.5-13. I used source from dban-1.0.6_src.tar.bz2. I had to make 2 changes in order to get it to successfully compile. In dwipe.h I had to change: #define BLKGETSIZE64 _IOR(0x12,114,sizeof(u64)) to #define BLKGETSIZE64...