Schleimer, Ben wrote:
> I understand that writing zeros over the file should permenately delete the 
> data but couldn't the data be cached elsewhere on the drive, especially with 
> journalling filesystems??

Yes, that's pretty much possible. It could also
happen, that the data is on a remapped (defective)
sector.

PS: Please could you try to shorten your lines
a bit? Thanks!

Alexander Skwar
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