WipeFreeSpace GUI is a free and open source program that will securely wipe the free space on an ext2, ext3, ext4, NTFS, XFS, ReiserFSv3, ReiserFSv4, FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 partition or drive, just like the shred program securely wipes files.

Requirements:

· Java 1.6 or later

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· WipeFreeSpaceGUI version 0.3: Improved progress bars.
· README: added compiling with "ant".
· Starter.java: copied the error title to this class in case the main class doesn't load at all.
· WipeFreeSpaceGUIView.java (WipeFreeSpaceGUIView): improved listening for the Esc key, delaying reading the config file until the whole GUI has been created.
· WipeFreeSpaceGUIAboutBox.java (WipeFreeSpaceGUIAboutBox): improved listening for the Esc key.
· WipeFreeSpaceGUI.java (EscKeyListener): the new Esc key listener.
· ProgressUpdater.java (ProgressUpdater): fixed doubling the current input into the current text variable.
· WipeFreeSpaceGUIView.java (startButActionPerformed): fixed passing the number of stages.