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 -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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