On Wed, September 29, 2010 15:17, Matt Cowger wrote: > You can truncate a file: > > Echo "" > bigfile > > That will free up space without the 'rm'
Copy-on-write; the new version gets written to the disk before the old version is released, it doesn't just overwrite. AND, if it's in any snapshots, the old version doesn't get released. -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
