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From: qwms-avib@dea.spamcon.org
Subject: Re: Create files with specific sizes?
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:20:29 +1300
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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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