From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 19 2:34:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7362137B405 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 02:34:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.132.171.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.132.171] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 165lkO-0005ZD-00; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 02:34:05 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAJAVg684510; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 02:31:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 02:31:41 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: francisv@dagupan.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Creating 5GB files Message-ID: <20011119023141.O69555@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <10F29E27A956D511B0940050DA8D86A9340B9F@apmail.dagupan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <10F29E27A956D511B0940050DA8D86A9340B9F@apmail.dagupan.com>; from francisv@dagupan.com on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 05:50:44PM +0800 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ 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 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? -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message