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From: The Almonds <cjalmond@yahoo.com>
Subject: How to create files of certain size using dd?
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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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