Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 02:31:41 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: francisv@dagupan.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Creating 5GB files Message-ID: <20011119023141.O69555@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <10F29E27A956D511B0940050DA8D86A9340B9F@apmail.dagupan.com>; from francisv@dagupan.com on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 05:50:44PM %2B0800 References: <10F29E27A956D511B0940050DA8D86A9340B9F@apmail.dagupan.com>
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On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 05:50:44PM +0800, francisv@dagupan.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What's the 'right' way to create 5GB files using 'dd'? I'll be mounting the
> file as a virtual disk.
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/your/path/here bs=1m count=5120
Would seem to work fine?
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