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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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