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Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 2 days agoNot quite, deletion from a hard drive also unflags the space the data was located at as being in use, so it will be overwritten eventually so long as the drive continues to have things written to it. Simply flagging something as being archived means that information will remain on the server indefinitely, the exact opposite of what is intended by a delete button.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
That’s why we use the shred command.
YerbaYerba@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Depending on your media that may not really destroy the data. SSDs do wear leveling and it might just write new blocks and reuse the old ones later.
CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So, what you’re saying is, to truly delete data from an ssd, you need to do manual wear leveling, with a belt sender.