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durangod · 12-16-2012, 03:18 PM

Hi, i had someone ask me if truncate table overwrites the free space 256 and i honestly dont know, i looked at the doc for truncate but could not find anything specific. This might be apache setting not a mysql function attribute im thinking. I just dont know?

I know this next part is more of a apache question but i wanted to try to keep this topic together as much as i could. I did find this as a cron job just in case truncate does not wipe free space but i dont know how accurate this code is.

http://directedge.us/content/securely-wipe-disks-linux

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durangod Senior Coder Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 1,177 Thanks: 214 Thanked 31 Times in 30 Posts	Does truncate overwrite free space as well Hi, i had someone ask me if truncate table overwrites the free space 256 and i honestly dont know, i looked at the doc for truncate but could not find anything specific. This might be apache setting not a mysql function attribute im thinking. I just dont know? I know this next part is more of a apache question but i wanted to try to keep this topic together as much as i could. I did find this as a cron job just in case truncate does not wipe free space but i dont know how accurate this code is. http://directedge.us/content/securely-wipe-disks-linux Last edited by durangod; 12-16-2012 at 04:29 PM..