truncate tool - must be root?

[Maxim Konovalov]

On Tue, 30 May 2006, 10:59-0500, Eric Anderson wrote:

> Is it expected that truncate(8) must be used by a superuser?  If so,
> then the man page should probably mention it.  If not, then it's
> broken :)

Works for me:

$ truncate -s 100g 100g
$ ls -l 100g
-rw-r--r--  1 maxim  maxim  107374182400 May 30 20:11 100g
$ id
uid=1001(maxim) gid=1001(maxim) groups=1001(maxim), 0(wheel),
5(operator), 68(dialer)

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Maxim Konovalov