In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you 
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> 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 file and unlink the
> old one. The problem is that I don't have a lot of time
> to do this so I am looking for something like ftruncate()
> but for the beginning...

> Any ideas?

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