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How to create dummy 2G file
The lmktemp worked fine - actually faster than the dd command. Thanks. -
How to create dummy 2G file
Thanks - the dd=/dev/zero .... worked fine. -
How to create dummy 2G file
I would like to create a dummy file on a file system to verify that the file system can handle this size of a file. I thought I could do this with the dd command using if=/dev/null of=/targetdirectory. But I don't know how to tell it to put 2G of lovalues in the file. I know there is a way -...
