Re: How to truncate a file in the beginning

2002-12-14 Thread ay
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > 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 t

Re: How to truncate a file in the beginning

2002-12-13 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Fri, 13-Dec-2002 at 05:41:41 -0800, David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Andre Albsmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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

Re: How to truncate a file in the beginning

2002-12-13 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Andre Albsmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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

Re: How to truncate a file in the beginning

2002-12-13 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Fri, 13-Dec-2002 at 08:15:22 -0500, Gerald T. Freymann wrote: > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > > Are there any special features in FreeBSD that I can use > > to truncate a file in the beginning? > > Sure. > > man split > > should do it! Don't think so... from the split m

Re: How to truncate a file in the beginning

2002-12-13 Thread Gerald T. Freymann
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > Are there any special features in FreeBSD that I can use > to truncate a file in the beginning? Sure. man split should do it! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Scary Gerry -- Senior Systems Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] -For web-hosting

How to truncate a file in the beginning

2002-12-13 Thread Andre Albsmeier
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