# dd if=\/dev\/zero of=filename bs=1024 count=desired<\/strong><\/p>\n Example to create a 1GB file: Example to create a 2GB file:<\/strong><\/p>\n dd if=\/dev\/zero of=file_2GB bs=2048 count=1000 Example to create a 512MB file:<\/strong><\/p>\n dd if=\/dev\/zero of=file_512MB bs=1024 count=500 either use<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n # mkfile size myfile # mkfile 10240m myfile<\/strong><\/p>\n If you run # mkfile -n 10240m myfile the file will be created, but the disk blocks will not get allocated, only when writing data into the file.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Posted by Satish LN at 8:46 PM<\/abbr><\/a> Creating large empty files in Linux \/ UNIX <\/p>\n To create large empty files in Linux or UNIX:<\/p>\n # dd if=\/dev\/zero of=filename bs=1024 count=desired<\/p>\n Example to create a 1GB file: dd if=\/dev\/zero of=file_1GB bs=1024 count=1000 \/or\/ dd if=\/dev\/zero of=file_1GB bs=4096 count=250 \/or\/ dd if=\/dev\/zero of=file_1GB bs=2048 count=500<\/p>\n Example to create a 2GB file:<\/p>\n dd if=\/dev\/zero […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>
\ndd if=\/dev\/zero of=file_1GB bs=1024 count=1000
\n\/or\/
\ndd if=\/dev\/zero of=file_1GB bs=4096 count=250
\n\/or\/
\ndd if=\/dev\/zero of=file_1GB bs=2048 count=500<\/p>\n
\n\/or\/
\ndd if=\/dev\/zero of=file_2GB bs=1024 count=2000<\/p>\n
\n\/or\/
\ndd if=\/dev\/zero of=file_1GB bs=512 count=1000<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>
\nwhere can be in KB, MB or GB using k, m or g as suffix. To create a 10 GB file, use<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/icon18_email.gif\")
<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"