Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 00:37:42 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: shubha mr <shubha_mr@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file of large size Message-ID: <20021002073742.GA65946@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20021002072517.28439.qmail@web14611.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021002072517.28439.qmail@web14611.mail.yahoo.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 08:25:17AM +0100, shubha mr wrote: > Hi, > Can anyone suggest me a shell script or a command to > create a large file in BSD(aroung 50 MB).Any junk data > in it is also fine. truncate -s 50M /path/to/file This creates a sparse file (i.e. it doesn't take up 50M of disk space). If you actually need space to be allocated, use dd(1). Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9mqJFWry0BWjoQKURAlCDAKDRgkIgkeAjlAYOhMSPV4R/FJhUTgCg/jBX vEMKqbPJVI0PRmyIEOL7TU4= =chtv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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