George Washington Dunlap III wrote:
>
> 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)?
Nope, doesn't matter. I just sent this because I know it generated
the correct size.
-Kevin
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