On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 09:57:34AM -0400, Benjamin Coates wrote:
> >They have support yes, but how do you delete part of a file after you
> >don't need a section of data anymore?
> 
> NT has an ioctl that zeroes out a range of bytes, and deallocates file space 
> as appropriate.  I'm told linux doesn't have that.

I seem to recall once seeing a man page for unlink or something
mentioning that it would be very useful to be able to unlink part of a
file...

I think you're right. :(

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