Michael Mayer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 22:46:21 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: >> Is something so trivial worth packaging? It sounds like it doesn't do >> anything that dd doesn't. > >Oh, yes, it is worth it! In fact, some month ago I wrote a tool like this >for my personal use to cut movie files which are slightly to big to fit on a >CD. > >And yes, you can do something like this with dd, but dd always copies the >file using the supplied blocksize. So you have to copy 700MB in chunks of >2kB each just to trunc the trailing few kB: Keeps your HDD busy for a long >time and is very annoying.
Not if you read the man page: dd if=/dev/null of=totruncate bs=1 seek=positiontotruncate Cheers T. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
