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On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 13:17 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Philip Hudson wrote: > Dan's solution of echoing nothing into it might work, but I'm not sure if > that actually frees up the disk blocks... I wondered the same thing. The bash manpage says Redirection of output causes the file whose name results from the expansion of word to be opened for writing on file descriptor n, or the standard output (file descriptor 1) if n is not specified. If the file does not exist it is created; if it does exist it is truncated to zero size. So the > redirection will truncate any existing file rather than unlink and create a new one, therefore the disk blocks will be freed. I learnt something there. Excellent. Sophos Limited, The Pentagon, Abingdon Science Park, Abingdon, OX14 3YP, United Kingdom. Company Reg No 2096520. VAT Reg No GB 991 2418 08. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq