Re: generating a 3 gig test file

Maybe it's simplier to you to use:
dd if=/dev/zero of=filename bs=1m count=3000

Cheers,

Gergely
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I ended up doing

dd if=/dev/zero of=filename bs=1024 count=3145728




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There was an undocumented command in 5.2 and lower I believe called:
"mkltemp" or something... I believe it was in: "/usr/sbin/" but not sure.
I'm not sure if it's still there.
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I need to create a 3 gig file for testing...
I believe I can do this with dd

does anyone know the syntax off the top of their head?

I am testing file size limits..

Tks
Tina


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