Wipe Slack Space

What is "wiping Slack space"? How does it work? Whats the point? Does it free up space on the drive?

#42879

The unused space in a disk cluster. The DOS and Windows file systems use fixed-size clusters. Even if the actual data being stored requires less storage than the cluster size, an entire cluster is reserved for the file. The unused space is called the slack space.

Taken from webopedia.com

#42880

Thats also why the same file on different file systems can take up different sizes.

#42928

Ahhhh.... Contra... I'm so serious you are convincing me on NTFS.. :smartass:

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