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Comment by electroly

Shred doesn't work at all on SSDs because wear leveling will spray the writes all over the drive, rather than overwriting the blocks you intended to. Your random bytes will end up in new blocks, not overwriting the original blocks. Trying to shred individual files is a totally pointless exercise on SSDs. It isn't doing what you want it to do.
parent electroly 3 years ago

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