sfill NTFS

[ndstate]

Hello,

Does anyone know of sfill can be used on a NTFS file system?

Thanks for your help!

[CharlesA]

You'd probably be better off just using DBAN if you are wiping a whole drive, or something like shred if you are wiping files.

[doogy2004]

shred can also wipe drives. In linux everything is a file.

[ndstate]

I am just looking to overwrite free space. I have my data on NTFS so it can be shared with windows.

[drsmooth]

You must first mount your windows partition. Then open a terminal.

In the terminal, I typed in

watch -n 5 df -hm

From the terminal, I copied my windows partition.
which looked something like this.

/media/06106DD0106DdhF1

After copying the location of my windows partition. I opened a second terminal. In the second terminal, I typed in...

sudo sfill

After typing in sudo sfill.

I then added

/media/06106DD0106DdhF1

Immediately after sudo sfill. In my case it read like this..

sudo sfill /media/06106DD0106Dh6F1

For those unsure which partition is their windows partition

type " watch -n 5 df -hm " into a terminal before mounting the windows partition.

Take note of what appears in the terminal. Then press ctrl-c with the terminal active to exit cleanly. Do not close the terminal....

Now, Mount your windows partition......

Go back to the terminal......

Then type into the terminal " watch -n 5 df -hm " . The new partition should now show up.

If you would like to see the progress of sfill

Open a second terminal. type the command

watch -n 5 df -hm

It shows you sfill's progress It updates every 5 seconds.

Sfill can take many hours.

[nothingspecial]