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Complication: Removing Files
Authored by: googoo on May 18, '04 02:14:27PM

One complication with this method is when you WANT to remove a file immediately. Suppose you have a large file (i.e., digital video) that you would like to remove. You would have to remove the "original" as well as the hard-linked "backup." If you do not remove the backup, the file will remain on your hard drive until the backup script removes it.

-Mark



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Complication: Removing Files - what about secure delete
Authored by: hamarkus on May 18, '04 07:05:57PM

Would secure delete remove the files immediately, or would it just overwrite the files with gibberish, with the disk space only being reclaimed after the -d version of the script was run?



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Complication: Removing Files - what about secure delete
Authored by: _merlin on May 18, '04 09:06:04PM

Depends on whether Apple's implementation sets the file length to zero before deleting the file. I'm not at my Mac now, but on this Sun, the space is only reclaimed when you remove all the links (yes, the file is overwritten with garbage from /dev/random first).



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