scrub_freespace


Description:

[ Version ( since = "1.0.52" ) ]
public bool scrub_freespace (string dir) throws Error

scrub (securely wipe) free space

This command creates the directory dir and then fills it with files until the filesystem is full, and scrubs the files as for scrub_file, and deletes them. The intention is to scrub any free space on the partition containing dir.

It is an interface to the scrub(1) program. See that manual page for more details.

This function depends on the feature "scrub". See also feature_available.

Parameters:

this

A GuestfsSession object

Returns:

true on success, false on error