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command that created files of a specified size ?
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Sarc
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Jul 31, 2006, 11:22 PM
 
Hi,

I can't remember the terminal command that allowed to create a dummy file of any sized you specified.
Any help is appreciated.
Thx
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Aug 1, 2006, 12:07 AM
 
You're probably thinking of mkfile.
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Aug 1, 2006, 04:54 PM
 
dd if=/dev/zero of=myfile count=300

to create a 300 byte file named myfile
     
   
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