From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SVisor Subject: Re: Create files with specific sizes? Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:41:19 +0100 Message-ID: References: <41BEA9C4.4050700@lol.ba> <20041214221218.0f825cf4.qwms-avib@dea.spamcon.org> Reply-To: svisor@lycos.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20041214221218.0f825cf4.qwms-avib@dea.spamcon.org> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org I have a follow up question. ... >>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. So I tried: dd if=/dev/random of=file bs=1k count=1024 But to my suprise I got only a ~4k file. I know that dev/random may run out of values. But should dd not wait until there are enought of data? // Jarmo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs