Yes and no. It will delete the file in the eyes of the user by freeing the linked data blocks on the drive. Physically the data is still there.
Therefore it is important to overwrite these data blocks, for example by using shred -u -n 10 passwords.csv.
Otherwhise these data blocks could be restored later.
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Yes and no. It will delete the file in the eyes of the user by freeing the linked data blocks on the drive. Physically the data is still there.
Therefore it is important to overwrite these data blocks, for example by using
shred -u -n 10 passwords.csv.Otherwhise these data blocks could be restored later.
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