Truncating table does not make the mysql file smaller

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Published on 2010-05-20T01:19:40Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 1:30 UTC
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I truncated several huge tables, but the mysql file and database appears to remain at the same size.

Does truncate table delete the data from mysql as well?

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