Comments on: Where Do Files Go When the rm Command is Issued? https://www.ubuntumint.com/where-files-go-when-run-rm-command/ UbuntuMint - Everything About Ubuntu Linux Mon, 24 Jul 2023 08:11:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Bill Dietrich https://www.ubuntumint.com/where-files-go-when-run-rm-command/#comment-11435 Thu, 09 Jun 2022 19:10:54 +0000 https://www.ubuntumint.com/?p=4974#comment-11435 The article stopped just as it was getting to the interesting part.

There is no “the Linux Filesystem”; there are many, with different behavior. Another factor is whether your storage device has firmware that does remapping (standard on SSDs, also on enterprise HDDs).

So, things are simple for the ext4 filesystem on consumer HDD. Not so simple for say Btrfs on an SSD. CoW, TRIM, over-provisioning, etc.

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