Fail with free space wipe on FAT device - ie USB Memory Stick

[Mark Fisher]

Using BleachBit v1.0
Installed from BleachBit weebsite as Ubuntu software centre has older version.
XUbuntu 12.04, AMD 2000+ 1.5Gb mem

The FAT file system which is used regulary on USB sticks and other memory cards only supports a maximum file size of 4Gb bleachbit seems to be unaware of this (earlier versions reported an error : file too large, and then failed) v1 freezes wgen the file size for wiping reaches 4Gb, very annoying!
The solution which cleaners like Eraser on Windows use is to overwrite the free space with multiple files each of less than 4Gb - simple.
Thanks anyway for a good piece of software, wouldn't be without it.

[Andrew Ziem (ahziem1)]

BleachBit 0.9.4 added support for creating multiple 4GB files specifically for FAT partitions like USB drives. I'll check it is (still) working.

[Andrew Ziem (ahziem1)]

The screenshot shows BleachBit 1.1 creating a second file once Windows stops writing to the the first 4GB file.

[Andrew Ziem (ahziem1)]

Fix released. Please test and report success or failure
http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/news/bleachbit-11-beta

[Andrew Ziem (ahziem1)]

I was hoping for a confirmation that it is fixed, but I think it is, so I am closing this as fixed. Feel free to re-open or re-file, if the problem persists.