How do I permanently crop my photos (destructive edit) ?

I like how Lightroom leaves my original photo intact, and allows me to reverse all edits. However, sometimes I know I will not need to preserve the entire original file as shot. For example, I have a series of bird images where, if one can imagine the photo is divided into a 3 x 3 grid, and the bird is in the center square only. The rest of the photo is wasted space and therefore each of these images is taking up 8 times as much space on my hard drive as the image I need would. Is there a way to permanently crop the original photo, cutting out the unimportant part and leaving only my subject? Especially if some of these are RAW files, they can take up quite a bit of space.

pwmackin wrote:
buy a bigger hard drive
+1 vote.. There really is NO way to substantially reduce raw file size, so you either have to convert to non-raw format (jpeg/lossy-dng) and lose the raws, or get more space, if you want to keep them I mean. Note: the latest version of NX2 supports removing the embedded jpeg (in bulk) if that would help. That'll cut a few megabytes from every raw.

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