On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Kevin Lawton wrote:
> Eric Laberge wrote:
>
> > >hahaha, bs=1k count=483000 is what you want ;)
> >
> > Which gives you a strange geometry ;)
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=../483M bs=512 count=967680
Since you're just making a file full of zeros, does it matter what block
size you use to create it, as long as bs*count==483M (and bs can fit in
your memory)?
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