alt Hacker NewsFrom shred man:
The shred command relies on a crucial assumption: that the file system and hardware overwrite data in place.
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many modern file system designs do not satisfy this assumption. Exceptions include:
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Log-structured or journaled file systems, such as.
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NTFS.
I think SSDs also randomize where data ends up? But I'm not sure if that's true for existing files too.