Update truncate on purge doc

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diff --git a/docs/manuals/en/console/bconsole.tex b/docs/manuals/en/console/bconsole.tex
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@@ -821,7 +821,20 @@ purge volume|volume=\lt{}vol-name\gt{} (of all jobs)
 For the {\bf purge} command to work on Volume Catalog database  records the
 {\bf VolStatus}  must be Append, Full, Used, or Error.  
 
-The actual data written to the Volume will be unaffected by  this command.  
+The actual data written to the Volume will be unaffected by this command unless
+you are using the \texttt{ActionOnPurge=Truncate} option on those Media.
+
+To ask Bacula to truncate your \texttt{Purged} volumes, you need to use the
+following command in interactive mode or in a RunScript:
+\begin{verbatim}
+*purge volume action=truncate storage=File allpools
+# or by default, action=all
+*purge volume action storage=File pool=Default
+\end{verbatim}
+
+This is possible to specify the volume name, the media type, the pool, the
+storage, etc\dots (see \texttt{help purge}) Be sure that your storage device is
+idle when you decide to run this command.
 
 \item[python]
    \index[general]{python}