* Dan Nelson [2005-06-25 19:01 -0500]
> Try the "truncate" command.
* Jonathan Chen [2005-06-26 12:02 +1200]
> truncate(1) is your friend.
Thanks! I just figured this myself, after remembering that this operation
is called to truncate. (Not easy when english is not one's first language)
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* Svein Halvor Halvorsen [2005-06-26 01:57 +0200]
> Is it possible to just chop off the end of a file, without making a copy
I figured it out. Seems truncate(1) was it.
Svein Halvor
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On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 01:57:33AM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
>
> I have a ~70GB, of which the last ~50GB is garbage. I know exactly at what
> byte I want to cut the file, but I do not have enough free diskspace to do
> a
>
>dd if=orig of=pre bs=... count=
>
>
> Is it possi
In the last episode (Jun 26), Svein Halvor Halvorsen said:
> I have a ~70GB, of which the last ~50GB is garbage. I know exactly at
> what byte I want to cut the file, but I do not have enough free
> diskspace to do a
>
>dd if=orig of=pre bs=... count=
>
>
> Is it possible to just chop of
I have a ~70GB, of which the last ~50GB is garbage. I know exactly at what
byte I want to cut the file, but I do not have enough free diskspace to do
a
dd if=orig of=pre bs=... count=
Is it possible to just chop off the end of a file, without making a copy
of its beginning? It's a dv
