Chop off end of file

[Jonathan Chen]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 01:57:33AM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
> 
> 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?

truncate(1) is your friend.
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