-a

Wipe all unused space. This may take significant time. If the option --unused-fast (or -U) is alsopresent, the faster wiping method is used.

-b

Define the allowed replacement bytes which are drawn randomly to overwrite the unused space. BYTE-LISTis a comma-separated list of values in range 0-255 expressed in octal, decimal or hexadecimal base.

-c

Define the number of times the unused space is to be overwritten. If both options --bytes and --countare set, the space is repeatedly overwritten this number of times by each of the values in the list.

-d

Wipe all the directory indexes, which may contain names of deleted files.

-f

This will override some sensible defaults, such as not using a mounted volume. Use this option withcaution.

-h

Show a list of options with a brief description of each one.

-i

Display details about unused space, without wiping anything.

-l

Overwrite the logfile (update journal).

-m

Overwrite the unused space in the MFT (main file table, which contains the file names, and the contentsof short files).

-n

Executes the wiping process without writing to device.

-p

Overwrite the Windows swap space.

-q

Suppress some debug/warning/error messages.

-s

Overwrite the space which had been allocated to a file which has been deleted recently and is stillundeletable. This option is not compatible with --bytes and the replacement bytes are random ones ortaken from a standard list.

-t

Overwrite the space at the end of files which is unused, but allocated because the allocations arealways done by full clusters.

-u

Overwrite the space which is currently not allocated to any file (but may have been used in the past).

-U

Overwrite the space which is currently not allocated to any file, trying not to overwrite the space notwritten to since the previous wiping.

-v

Display more debug/warning/error messages. This option may be used twice to display even more messages.

-V

Show the version number, copyright and license of ntfswipe.EXAMPLESWipe out all unused space in an NTFS volume.ntfswipe -a /dev/sda1Wipe out all deleted file names from an NTFS volume.ntfswipe -dms /dev/sda1BUGSThere are no known problems with ntfswipe. If you find a bug please send an email describing the problem tothe development team:ntfs-3g-devel@lists.sf.netAUTHORSntfswipe was written by Richard Russon, Anton Altaparmakov and Yura Pakhuchiy. It was ported to ntfs-3g byErik Larsson.AVAILABILITYntfswipe is part of the ntfs-3g package and is available from:http://www.tuxera.com/community/