Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 01:57:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Chop off end of file Message-ID: <20050626015255.D15610@maren.thelosingend.net>
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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. Svein Halvor
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