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Brad Campbell wrote:
> While I'm here does anyone know of a simple program, either dos or linux
> based for wiping unused space on fat filesystems? The only ones I've
> found so far have been windows based.

For DOS and FAT16, I'm using Wipem. See

http://short.stop.home.att.net/freesoft/disk2.htm#wipers

I'm intersted too in such tools to write zeros to the free space. Either
Linux or DOS (FAT32).

Andreas
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