Re: need to create a file of all binary zeros

Subject: Re: need to create a file of all binary zeros
From: Buddha (buddha@gci.net)
Date: Sun Aug 25 2002 - 13:45:54 AKDT

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> The simplest solution would be to use dd to create a file from
> /dev/zero's contents.

Thanx Arthur!

I had to give my 'on call Linux guru' Dave a ring for some help because
there aren't enough examples in 'info dd' or 'man dd' for me to figure it
out.

Here's the command we ended up with:

dd if=/dev/zero of=zeros bs=1000 count=2000000

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