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From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To: The Almonds <cjalmond@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: How to create files of certain size using dd?
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, The Almonds wrote:

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

dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1024k count=1


			Fer


>
> Thanks,
> Curtis
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