On Sep 11, 3:35pm, Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. wrote: > I want to create a random file of 5MB. How do I do that? dd if=/dev/random of=myrandomfile bs=1024 count=5k You may also want to try /dev/urandom in place of /dev/random. (The results will be less random, but the file should be created quite a lot faster.) Kevin