On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:40:48PM +1200, Matthew Gregan wrote:
> > How does a pipe not mean copying the file? In this case I can't copy
> > the file, as it contains a disk I/O error 2GB into a 4GB file. To keep
> > the error contained in a small file I chopped the end, but wouldn't
> > mind getting another 2GB of usable disk space back from the front. Of
> > course I could just stop playing and write over it.
run fsck with a badblock check. if there is one bad bock, there may be
more, the check will find them all and add them to the bad block list.
> But going back to the generic 'can I truncate the beginning of a file'
> question, the answer is (as has been said): not easily. Some systems
> will provide an alternative to the {,f}truncate library calls that allow
> you to do this, but it's not portable, and requires filesystem-specific
> support to do it.
would be nice though for large media data, being able to split and join
files without ever needing to copy the data around.
greetings, martin.
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