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Date:      Tue, 21 Aug 2001 07:53:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      The Almonds <cjalmond@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   How to create files of certain size using dd?
Message-ID:  <20010821145322.82693.qmail@web9604.mail.yahoo.com>

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All,

I used to use the utility mkfile in SunOS that would
create a file of a specified file size.  I am new to
BSD and understand I could use DD to do a similiar
thing.  

Does anyone have an example using DD on how to create
a junk file that is 1MB in size?

Thanks,
Curtis

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