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garoevans/LINUX: create large random file

Created April 12, 2012 16:33
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LINUX: create large random file
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LINUX: create large random file
1MB
dd if=/dev/zero of=g_file.dat count=1024 bs=1024
500MB
dd if=/dev/zero of=g_file.dat count=1024 bs=51200
1GB
dd if=/dev/zero of=g_file.dat count=1024 bs=1048576
5GB
dd if=/dev/zero of=g_file.dat count=1024 bs=5242880
10GB
dd if=/dev/zero of=g_file.dat count=1024 bs=10485760
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