From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 21 20: 1:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64D0537B408 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 20:01:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@babbleon.org) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.182]) by Mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:00:48 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Fernando Gleiser , The Almonds Subject: Re: How to create files of certain size using dd? Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:00:42 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: References: <20010821115838.J42431-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> In-Reply-To: <20010821115838.J42431-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01082123004201.03702@i8k.babbleon.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 21 August 2001 10:59, Fernando Gleiser wrote: > 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 he meant dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1024k count=1024 of course. -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) --------------------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! <------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message