RE: how to i return a filesize to "0"....?

[Davidson John <john davidson dchs tas gov au>]

A better solution is 

cat /dev/null > file.name

or whatever the file name is. You have to have write permission, or course.
This preserves ownership and permissions, and resets the file size to zero.


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Watt [mailto:grimm mad scientist com]
Sent: Monday, 2 August 1999 3:20
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: how to i return a filesize to "0"....?


At 11:57 AM 8/2/99 +1000, you wrote:
>how do i return a filesize to 0? That is, i want to cleanup my HUGE log
>files from taking up room, but rather than getting rid fo the files i
>want to be able to clear all their contents out and returm their size
>value to 0 - is this possible and if so how do i do it..?

Easiest way is to delete and recreate the file.