Extirpater
A free space eraser
- Developer
- Divested Computing Group
- License
- AGPL-3.0-or-later
- Package
us.spotco.extirpater- Category
- System
- Latest version
- 1.8 · Dec 9, 2024
- Minimum Android
- Android API 14
Screenshots
Description
A high performance free space eraser, the first on Android. Use before selling your device, after enabling encryption, or after deleting many apps/files.
• Due to how flash drives work and the partition layout of devices, it'll never be possible to fully fill the drive.
• Warning! Excessive use WILL destroy your device!
What is free space erasing?
• Typically when you delete a file it is not really deleted, it is merely removed from the file system's index.
• A free space eraser tool such as this one fills the remaining space of your drive with random noise files and then deletes them.
• This process makes deleted files for the most part irrecoverable.
What is file table filling?
• On some file systems, deleted file names can still be accessible in backup index databases.
• By creating many tens or hundreds of thousands of empty files with different random names you can push out the old files.
• This process makes deleted file names for the most part irrecoverable.
• Due to how flash drives work and the partition layout of devices, it'll never be possible to fully fill the drive.
• Warning! Excessive use WILL destroy your device!
What is free space erasing?
• Typically when you delete a file it is not really deleted, it is merely removed from the file system's index.
• A free space eraser tool such as this one fills the remaining space of your drive with random noise files and then deletes them.
• This process makes deleted files for the most part irrecoverable.
What is file table filling?
• On some file systems, deleted file names can still be accessible in backup index databases.
• By creating many tens or hundreds of thousands of empty files with different random names you can push out the old files.
• This process makes deleted file names for the most part irrecoverable.
All versions
| Version | Released | Minimum Android | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | Dec 9, 2024 | Android API 14 | 82 KB |
| 1.7 | Aug 3, 2024 | Android API 14 | 78 KB |
| 1.6 (2 builds) | May 20, 2024 | Android API 14 | 78 KB |
| 1.5 (4 builds) | Nov 7, 2023 | Android API 14 | 78 KB |
| 1.4 (6 builds) | Oct 19, 2022 | Android API 14 | 2 MB |
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