topic mkfile on hpux 11.11 in Operating System - HP-UX

mkfile on hpux 11.11

David_711 — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:26:22 GMT

Somebody know if on hpux 11.11 i can use the command mkfile? if not, what command i can use?
Thanks

Re: mkfile on hpux 11.11

Jeff_Traigle — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:43:30 GMT

Not as easy to remember as mkfile, but the HP-UX equivalent is prealloc.

Re: mkfile on hpux 11.11

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:44:22 GMT

David,

What are you trying to accomplish. I can't recall what mkfile is on any platform.

make or gmake is used to compile software. That is all that comes to mind.

Good Luck,

SEP

Re: mkfile on hpux 11.11

Peter Nikitka — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:18:04 GMT

Hi,

in Solaris the command
mkfile 100m filename
creates a file 'filename' of size 100MB.

The above mentioned HP-UX pendant would read as
prealloc filename $((100*1024*1024))

Guessed I right?

mfG Peter

Re: mkfile on hpux 11.11

Giri Sekar. — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:11:49 GMT

mkfile and truncate for Solaris. prealloc and truncate for HP-UX

Thanks

Giri Sekar

Re: mkfile on hpux 11.11

Asif Sharif — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:54:59 GMT

Hi David,

The following example preallocates 50000 bytes for the file myfile:

#prealloc myfile 50000

http://docs.hp.com/en/B9106-90007/prealloc.1.html

Regards,
Asif Sharif