Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:01:24 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Chop off end of file Message-ID: <20050626000124.GA9894@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20050626015255.D15610@maren.thelosingend.net> References: <20050626015255.D15610@maren.thelosingend.net>
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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 off the end of a file, without making a > copy of its beginning? It's a dv-file, resulting from "fwcontrol -R". > I left my home and forgot about it. When I returned home, the disk > was full, and now I need to delete the garbage. I know at exactly > what byte to cut the stream. Try the "truncate" command. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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