From: SVisor <svisor@lycos.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Create files with specific sizes?
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:47:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cprlk8$gpo$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41BF3700.9040909@ieee.org>
...
>> I wanted a file of garbage, not zeroes.
>> So I tried: dd if=/dev/random of=file bs=1k count=1024
...
> That's exactly what it is supposed to do. Perhaps you tought
> /dev/random could generate random numbers much faster. So when it's
> entropy pool was exhausted after 4KB, you tought it stopped working.
Nope I did not abort it, I just moved the mouse to generate more random
numbers (with dd running in X terminal). What dd says is:
0+1024 records in
0+1024 records out
But the file still is just ~4k. Maybe a bug?
// Jarmo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-16 9:47 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 [this message]
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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