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Jannik
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‎01-21-2003 05:59 AM

‎01-21-2003 05:59 AM

mkfile

on solais u have a command called mkfile where u can speciffy the size of the file. Is there a command for this on HPUX?

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Patrick Wallek
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‎01-21-2003 06:03 AM

‎01-21-2003 06:03 AM

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Re: mkfile

On HP-UX the command is 'prealloc'. 'man prealloc' for more details.

To make a 10,000,000 byte (approx 10MB) file do:

# prealloc testfile 10000000
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