[Shell]Create a file having a specific size

Last update on October 29, 2008 04:43 AM by netty5
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Shell]Create a file having a specific size






The dd command allows you to create "empty" file of desired size, creating these arbitrary heavy files, may be useful for testing purposes.

Use command below: 

dd if=/dev/zero of=file_to-create bs=1k count=1000


This command results in the creation of an empty 1GB file

(1000 represents 1000 blocks of 1Kb)
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