What happens when non-disposable VMs get deleted?

[Lace]

What happens when a VM gets deleted, that was not originally set to be a disposable?

Is the data queued to be eventually overwritten or what happens to it?

Is there a shred process that randomly overwrites this data automatically for whatever a user deletes including VMs and Templates and iso image files?

What happens?

[Tezeria]

When you delete the VMs (whether they are disposable or not), traces still remain. you can delete them using the 2nd script of @qubist

Really disposable (RAM based) qubes

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