Re-initializing a CNFS spool

[Pål Baltzersen]

Eric McDonald wrote:
> 
> Hi:
> 
> I need to re-initialize my CNFS spool, but I don't want to go through the
> lengthy process of deleting/restoring with mkfile (my version of linux
> doesn't allow direct I/O to a raw filesystem).
> 
> What's the best way to reset a CNFS spool file?
> 
> Eric

I guess this will do:

perl -e 'foreach(@ARGV){open(F,"+<$_")||die("$_: $!");print F
"\0"x1024;close(F);}' file ..

It (re)sets the 1024 1.st chars of file (and ..) to the NULL character

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