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|Short description=Overwrites empty space on disk data and metadata
 
|Short description=Overwrites empty space on disk data and metadata
 
|Full description=Overwrite Program is a program that overwrites empty space on disk, data and metadata.  The operating systems and programs automatically write and delete data on disk, for example text editors may save copies of the document for recovery and later delete them. Also when users delete files they are only marked as deleted but the files remain on disk and can be recovered.  To protect privacy and security the remaining data has to be overwritten.
 
|Full description=Overwrite Program is a program that overwrites empty space on disk, data and metadata.  The operating systems and programs automatically write and delete data on disk, for example text editors may save copies of the document for recovery and later delete them. Also when users delete files they are only marked as deleted but the files remain on disk and can be recovered.  To protect privacy and security the remaining data has to be overwritten.
|Homepage URL=https://ivoprogram.github.io/?content=overwrite.html
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|Homepage URL=https://github.com/ivoprogram/overwrite
 
|Is High Priority Project=No
 
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|VCS checkout command=git clone https://github.com/ivoprogram/overwrite
 
|Decommissioned or Obsolete=No
 
|Decommissioned or Obsolete=No
 
|Accepts cryptocurrency donations=No
 
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Latest revision as of 11:19, 6 November 2019


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Overwrite Program

https://github.com/ivoprogram/overwrite
Overwrites empty space on disk data and metadata

Overwrite Program is a program that overwrites empty space on disk, data and metadata. The operating systems and programs automatically write and delete data on disk, for example text editors may save copies of the document for recovery and later delete them. Also when users delete files they are only marked as deleted but the files remain on disk and can be recovered. To protect privacy and security the remaining data has to be overwritten.





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