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From: qwms-avib@dea.spamcon.org
To: g3fr-jc21@dea.spamcon.org
Cc: hpfx-0ctl@dea.spamcon.org, Linux-Newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Create files with specific sizes?
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:20:29 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041215082029.347d1afa.qwms-avib@dea.spamcon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cpmcg0$3e1$1@sea.gmane.org>

SVisor 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
> 
> I wanted a file of garbage, not zeroes.

Just pick a sufficiently large file or device 
for your input stream.  For example:

dd if=/dev/hda of=file1 bs=1k count=1024

Cheers,
Steven

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-14 19:20 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
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 [this message]
2004-12-16  1:14 ` Eric Bambach

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