livewipe

livewipe needs a better name.

livewipe wipes the unused areas of a mounted filesystem. It zeroes out the data area and creates long, random filenames in the hopes of overwriting all traces of deleted files.

livewipe was developed on OpenBSD, but shouldn’t be too difficult to port to other platforms.

livewipe is released into the public domain.

• livewipe 1.1

  Changes:

  • Remove sdiff bits.
  • Make X buffer a proper string.
  • Remove redundant errno check after xmktemp.
  • Check for unlikely truncation in strlcpy.
  • Pass template size to xmktemp instead of inferring.
  • Use getopt(3).
• livewipe 1.0