[joshuamorton]

Without reading the paper, I'm about 99% positive it also would mark the data as unused, which would allow the disk space to be reclaimed and overridden. Disks aren't write once.

It also likely would reindex it, meaning that you can't find it if you go looking for it unless you happen to know which disk it's in already and it hasn't been overwritten yet.

[catmanjan]

So basically recycle bin rather than shredder

[CydeWeys]

But said recycle bin is actually automatically emptied periodically.