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

[Greg Brown]

Yeah, thanks, it worked great.  Created a one gig file but it wasn't long
before I got the file size I wanted.  Thanks again!!!

Greg

On Dec 21, 2007 9:34 AM, Ian Kilgore <ian at trilug.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 09:33:32AM -0500, Ian Kilgore wrote:
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/gregs/2g/file bs=2M count=512
>
> Apologies, that's a bit small.  That's what I get for trying to think
> after waking up.  Anyway, you get the idea.
> --
> Ian Kilgore
> print/42;       # n/,"Just another Perl hacker,\n"
>
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>
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