---
title: 'Carefully clean up traces of files on disk using the SFill and DD commands'
url: 'https://ra1ahq.blog/en/sfill-dd'
markdown: 'https://ra1ahq.blog/en/sfill-dd.md'
lang: en
date: '2021-02-09'
description: 'ОднOnce I had to give an employee a USB flash drive on which both programs and personal photos were stored. I deleted the photos, but they remained in the sectors and their employee could restore them if he wanted. Therefore, we need a way to clean up free disk space. I found a command on how to do this - it works with NTFS, FAT and EXT3 file systems. The command line program is called SFill. Select'
taxonomy:
  category:
    - blog
  tag:
    - Linux
    - безопасность
  archives_month:
    - feb_2021
  archives_year:
    - '2021'
---

# Carefully clean up traces of files on disk using the SFill and DD commands

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