On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Tha.Suresh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Create a file of a given size in linux
>
> $ truncate -s 10M file

Another way of doing this (in case your system doesn't support sparse files) is:

$ dd bs=SIZE if=/dev/zero of=FILENAME

or to create a file with random binary file:

$ dd bs=SIZE if=/dev/random of=FILENAME

(see man dd for details)


SB

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