How do I SHORTEN a file without rewriting it?

[Bruce Dumes]

In article <1162 at bilver.UUCP> alex at bilver.UUCP (Alex Matulich) writes:
>
>Is there a way to shorten a file, that is, chop some data off the end of
>it, so that it doesn't consume as much physical space on the disk?  The
>file I have is too big to read into memory and write back out again, and
>there is not enough room on the disk to write out a temporary file.
>

Have you thought about using ftruncate()?

Bruce


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