How to wipe free disk space in Linux?

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00:31 Accepted answer (Score 128)
03:03 Answer 2 (Score 97)
07:53 Answer 3 (Score 51)
12:15 Answer 4 (Score 30)
13:13 Thank you

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/19326/ho...

Accepted answer links:
[How can I reliably erase all information on a hard drive?]: https://security.stackexchange.com/quest...

Answer 2 links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3#Size_l...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntfs#Scalab...

Answer 3 links:
[photorec]: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
[epilogue]: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pu...

Answer 4 links:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natt...
[Keeping filesystem images sparse]: http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/uml/inde...

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