topic dd comand in Operating System - Linux

dd comand

Jees Joy — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 07:02:02 GMT

Hi Everybody

I want to generate a huge file to test something, infact with the help of dd comand we can create it; but I forgot the comand syntax, so that it generates a huge file with nothing inside that could someone help me out

Thanks and Regards
Jees Joy

Re: dd comand

Peter Nikitka — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 07:04:57 GMT

Hi,

dd if=/dev/zero of=yourfile bs=1024k count=wanted_no_of_magabytes

or

dd if=/dev/random of=yourfile bs=1024k count=wanted_no_of_magabytes

mfG Peter

Re: dd comand

Jees Joy — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 07:33:26 GMT

Thanks for the quick TAT