{"package_name":"us.spotco.extirpater","name":"Extirpater","summary":"A free space eraser","category":"System","icon_url":"/api/icon/us.spotco.extirpater","latest_version_code":35,"latest_version_name":"1.8","apk_url":"/api/apk/us.spotco.extirpater","apk_size":83994,"apk_sha256":"ba8dcd0566affda61b7ad94cb7f1f2b1c0cbff2cb78bd2fd042b6a0e3858406e","source_kind":"fdroid-repo","repo_slug":"fdroid-main","last_updated":1779371404,"release_timestamp":1733741294,"description":"<p>A high performance free space eraser, the first on Android. Use before selling your device, after enabling encryption, or after deleting many apps/files.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Due to how flash drives work and the partition layout of devices, it'll never be possible to fully fill the drive.</li>\n<li>Warning! Excessive use WILL destroy your device!</li>\n</ul>\n<p>What is free space erasing?</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Typically when you delete a file it is not really deleted, it is merely removed from the file system's index.</li>\n<li>A free space eraser tool such as this one fills the remaining space of your drive with random noise files and then deletes them.</li>\n<li>This process makes deleted files for the most part irrecoverable.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>What is file table filling?</p>\n<ul>\n<li>On some file systems, deleted file names can still be accessible in backup index databases.</li>\n<li>By creating many tens or hundreds of thousands of empty files with different random names you can push out the old files.</li>\n<li>This process makes deleted file names for the most part irrecoverable.</li>\n</ul>\n","categories":["System"]}