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[โ€“] AntBas@eslemmy.es 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You need to use shred instead of rm. If you use rm the data still lives on your drive until it gets overwritten

[โ€“] Jamie@jamie.moe 5 points 1 year ago

I made dedicated posts about it and corrected the mistake there, I missed this comment. Thanks for pointing it out.