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Date:      Wed, 22 Aug 2001 13:08:47 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        "Brian T . Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to create files of certain size using dd?
Message-ID:  <20010822130847.H459@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <01082123004201.03702@i8k.babbleon.org>; from bts@babbleon.org on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:00:42PM -0400
References:  <20010821115838.J42431-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> <01082123004201.03702@i8k.babbleon.org>

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On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:00:42PM -0400, Brian T . Schellenberger wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 August 2001 10:59, Fernando Gleiser wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, The Almonds wrote:
> > > 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.

You're sure? He has specified the blocksize as 1024kb.

Edwin

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