How to Create a Gigabyte Testfile with dd?
December 28th, 2007And again, the whole task is as simple as typing that into your terminal:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test.file bs=1000 count=0 seek=$[1000*1000*1]
which will create a one (1) gigabyte big test file named “test.file” in the current Directory.
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December 31st, 2007 at 06:57
That’s not a gigabyte you dumbfuck.
Maybe you should read wikipedia?
December 31st, 2007 at 07:22
Okay little boy.
1 Gibibyte = 1024 Mebibyte
and
1 Gigabyte = 1000 Megabytes
(unless you’re talking about RAM.)
The common term Gigabyte is often erroneously referred to as 1024 MegaByte of data. But, by definition
Kilo = 10^3
Mega = 10^6
Giga = 10^9
Some articles which might be interesting for you, buddy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte
Regards, Benjamin
November 18th, 2008 at 09:02
I much prefer:
dd if=/dev/zero of=filename bs=1 count=1GB
or
dd if=/dev/zero of=filename bs=1kB count=1MB
If you want binary quantities then use:
dd if=/dev/zero of=filename bs=1 count=1G
or
dd if=/dev/zero of=filename bs=1K count=1M