Date: 23 Feb 2020 18:15:13 -0500 From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rm | Cleaning up recycle bin Message-ID: <20200223231514.849AF14D7C1C@ary.qy> In-Reply-To: <20200223151207928780007@bob.proulx.com>
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In article <20200223151207928780007@bob.proulx.com>, >Ernie Luzar wrote: >> To write zeros to existing file before removing that file >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/filename bs=1m ; rm /path/filename Ugh, no. If you want to erase the contents of a file before deleting it, use security/wipe from the ports collection. If you just want to delete a file and get its space back, rm is all you need.
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