Split and delete unwanted event clips

Just got FCX - haven't worked with FCP since v5.5 a number of years ago. Learning.
I have some footage (event clip) that is about an hour long and I want to delete about half of the clip (forever - it's old footage and nothing is on it). I can't see how to split an event clip and delete the portion of the original file that I no longer want. I can reject the offending part of the clip but the source file remains. If I try and move the rejected part of the file to the trash it moves the whole source file and I lose everything.
iMovie let me do this (it would split the event clip itself).
How do I do it on FCX ? I will reclamin 15+ GB if I can manage this.
Thanks

deleting parts of media is a standard practise.
Its called consolidating,
say you have imported many files each taking up a lot of your fast editing drive from your camera archives/tapes. (You do have original backups of your media don't you.)
You have used only a few seconds of each clip ( each of which may run to many tens of minutes)
On a "real" editing system you can copy just the used media, not the WHOLE clip (plus definable handles), re-link your timeline to these then delete the unused media. (Not your original media!)
We need a real consolidate in FCPx ( a decompose batch import would be nice too!)
Steve

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