[ale] making empty files

[Dylan Northrup]

A long time ago, (18.03.03), in a galaxy far, far away, Jason Vinson wrote:

:=i am attempting to make files of various sizes to do transfer tests on 
:=my network, and i know there is a command to make an empty file of a 
:=specific size.  Can anyone give me a hint?

dd if=/dev/zero of=YOUR_FILENAME bs=1024 count=NUMBER_OF_KBYTES

This works for me.  If you're using solaris, you can always use mkfile. . . 

  mkfile 200m foo; mkfile 20k bar; mkfile 1b baz

Hope this helps.

-- 
Dylan Northrup <*> docx at io.com <*> http://www.io.com/~docx/
"Harder to work, harder to strive, hard to be glad to be alive, but it's 
 really worth it if you give it a try." -- Cowboy Mouth, 'Easy'

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