Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> With dd you could copy any section of the file into a new one.

But again, it would take a long time to copy that.  The point is to not 
slog a half a terabyte of data from one disk to another in order to do 
the processing.

It works out OK. It just takes surprisingly long. :-)  It's automated at 
this point, unless I specifically take it off automation, so it's not 
like I'm waiting for it. It just kind of surprised me that deleting a 
big file could take over a minute. Must be the ext3 journaling or 
something going on. Ext was never really optimized for big files.

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