[Trilug-ontopic] I need to create a 2 gb file using Linux

Ian Kilgore ian at trilug.org
Fri Dec 21 09:33:32 EST 2007


On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 09:24:05AM -0500, Greg Brown wrote:
> I want to create a file (can be filled with jibberish, binary, ascii, don't
> care) that is exactly, or close to it, 2 GB.  What is the best way to do
> that?

dd if=/dev/zero of=/gregs/2g/file bs=2M count=512

Play with the bs (blocksize) and count, depending on how much ram you've
got..
-- 
Ian Kilgore
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