Let me spam too :) the trick is to change buffer size. let's say bs=1024k will be much faster. And you do have dd for windows.
On 26/07/07, Michael Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anand Vaidya wrote: > Linux Way of doint it: > dd if=/dev/zero of=filename.txt bs=1 count=$bytes > > Couldn't resists optimising this further using sparse files :) dd if=/dev/zero of=filename.txt bs=1 count=0 seek=$bytes See how fast it is to make a 1TB file this way e.g.: time dd if=/dev/zero of=filename.txt bs=1 count=0 seek=1T ~mc _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
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