Fundamentals: Truncation

Truncation erases the Volume and its data from disk. Therefore, there is no possibility to recover it. Unlike purging which changes the volume status in the Catalog, but does not touch your Volume or its data leaving it on disk.

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• Fundamentals: Volumes

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