how to create a big file in hpux

[halt007]

Is there a command to create a big file(2G)in hp-ux ?

[Hein van den Heuvel · Accepted solution]

1) prealloc bigfile 2097152

2) dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=2048 of=nigfile

hth,
Hein.

[Aashique]

Hi,
To create a big file ur mount point where you want to create big file that partition must have large files support.
Then you can create big file with dd command.

Thanks & Regards
Aashique

[Asif Sharif]

#timex prealloc myfile 2097152

Regards,
Asif Sharif