rm | Cleaning up recycle bin
Mark Blackman
mark at exonetric.com
Sun Feb 23 13:23:17 UTC 2020
> On 23 Feb 2020, at 13:16, Jos Chrispijn <bsduser at cloudzeeland.nl> wrote:
>
> I see; is that ZFS behavior or goes that for all BSD file systems?
All POSIX conformant file systems, including ZFS. If you look at the man page, this behaviour is in the summary
NAME
rm, unlink - remove directory entries
The *directory entry* referencing that chain of blocks is removed. The chain of blocks remains and can be overwritten at any time after the directory entry is removed.
- Mark
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