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Create a empty file using dd

Posted on 13. June 200913. June 2012 by Hans-Henry Jakobsen

How to create a empty/null file with a specified size

# dd if=/dev/zero of=destinationfile.bin bs=1024k count=100

This command creates a 100MB (1024k * 100) sized file.

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