Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:11:10 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to truncate a file in the beginning Message-ID: <20021213141110.A99587@curry.mchp.siemens.de>
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Are there any special features in FreeBSD that I can use to truncate a file in the beginning? Let's assume I have a 50GB file. Only the last 10GB are interesting for me and I have to free the first 40GB for some reason. Of course, I could seek to the appropriate position and copy the 10GB to a new file and unlink the old one. The problem is that I don't have a lot of time to do this so I am looking for something like ftruncate() but for the beginning... Any ideas? Thanks, -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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