From: Khan <nbv.sa@lol.ba>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Create files with specific sizes?
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:24:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41BEB15A.9070607@lol.ba> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041214221218.0f825cf4.qwms-avib@dea.spamcon.org>
qwms-avib@dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> Khan wrote:
>
>>is there any way (some command) that will allow me to
>>create blank files with specific sizes, eg 1MB, 5MB, 10MB etc.
>
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=file1 bs=1k count=1024
> dd if=/dev/zero of=file2 bs=1k count=5120
> dd if=/dev/zero of=file3 bs=1k count=10240
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 steven users 1048576 Dec 14 22:09 file1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 steven users 5242880 Dec 14 22:09 file2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 steven users 10485760 Dec 14 22:09 file3
TNX!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-14 9:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-14 8:52 Create files with specific sizes? Khan
2004-12-14 9:12 ` qwms-avib
2004-12-14 9:24 ` Khan [this message]
2004-12-14 9:41 ` SVisor
2004-12-14 18:54 ` Simon Valiquette
2004-12-16 9:47 ` SVisor
2004-12-17 21:15 ` Simon Valiquette
2004-12-18 11:05 ` SVisor
2004-12-14 19:20 ` qwms-avib
2004-12-16 1:14 ` Eric Bambach
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