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Jees Joy
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‎04-17-2006 12:02 AM

‎04-17-2006 12:02 AM

dd comand

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
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Peter Nikitka
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‎04-17-2006 12:04 AM

‎04-17-2006 12:04 AM

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Re: dd comand

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
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Jees Joy
Frequent Advisor

‎04-17-2006 12:33 AM

‎04-17-2006 12:33 AM

Re: dd comand

Thanks for the quick TAT
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