How-to Create a 1M file

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Author: Brian Cluff
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Subject: How-to Create a 1M file
> dd if=/dev/null of=TEST bs=1024 count=1000

/dev/null doesn't kick out anything. This just makes a 0 size file.
Better to use /dev/zero or /dev/urandom.

Brian


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