At 2:17a -0400 on 14 Oct 2007, Jason L. Buberel wrote: > create file '00A4' and fill it with 256k zeros. Is there a quick and > easy linux-way of creating such a beast? The tool is 'dd' and /dev. /dev/zero in this case. The summary of what you asked: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=./zblah count=1 bs=256k 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 262144 bytes (262 kB) copied, 0.00130993 seconds, 200 MB/s $ dd if=/dev/zero of=./zblah count=1 bs=256000 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 256000 bytes (256 kB) copied, 0.00136915 seconds, 187 MB/s HTH, Kevin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
