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A free space eraser
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<p>A high performance free space eraser, the first on Android. Use before selling your device, after enabling encryption, or after deleting many apps/files.</p>
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<li>Due to how flash drives work and the partition layout of devices, it'll never be possible to fully fill the drive.</li>
<li>Warning! Excessive use WILL destroy your device!</li>
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<p>What is free space erasing?</p>
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<li>Typically when you delete a file it is not really deleted, it is merely removed from the file system's index.</li>
<li>A free space eraser tool such as this one fills the remaining space of your drive with random noise files and then deletes them.</li>
<li>This process makes deleted files for the most part irrecoverable.</li>
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<p>What is file table filling?</p>
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<li>On some file systems, deleted file names can still be accessible in backup index databases.</li>
<li>By creating many tens or hundreds of thousands of empty files with different random names you can push out the old files.</li>
<li>This process makes deleted file names for the most part irrecoverable.</li>
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