On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Craig White wrote:
> I need to cut a users mail spool file down that now is 2.0G and mail box
> isn't working.
>
> I backed up her mail spool and emptied it out and now need a way to
> edit/cut it down - emacs won't open it because it exhausts the buffer.
>
> What's a simple command to say split the thing in half?
dd if=big.mailbox of=new.file bs=1048576 count=1000
Then for the other part use something like:
dd if=big.mailbox of=other.part bs=1048576 seek=1000
Then edit as needed.
Jeremy C. Reed
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