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dertimbo on 01/26/09


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Create emtpy file with predefined size

 / Published in: Bash
 

Writes 20 blocks of 1024 bytes to "filename" (equals a filesize of 20KB)

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  1. dd if=/dev/zero of=filename bs=1024 count=20

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