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Autor: Hendrik Boom
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Assumpte: Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space
On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 04:57:57AM +0100, Ludovic Bellière wrote:
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> On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 20:36:28 -0700
> Marc Shapiro via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
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> > I'm not familiar with sfill.  What does it do and what package is it
> > in.  It is not currently installed here.
> >
> > Marc
>
> sfill is part of secure-delete. rm doesn't actually remove data, it
> just remove all links to it leaving the space available to be used by
> something else. secure-delete scramble the data with junk (several
> times) so nothing can be recovered.


It's not clear how that would help. The problem isn't making sure the
data are inaccessible. The problem is that the allegedly free space
isn't being recognised as free space; presumably sfill won't know it's
free space either.

-- hendrik

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