ADMIN WEBHOSTING DEVELOPMENT

Posted: **Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:57 am**

How to create a file of 10MB.

dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile_10MB bs=10485760 count=1
du -sch testfile_10MB
Note : The size might get increased to 11MB

10485760 in the above exzmple is in Byte

2 MB -- > 2097152
5 MB --> 5242880
20 MB --> 20971520
50 MB --> 52428800

Posted: **Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:19 am**

Another useful command :
Create a 4MB file

seq 10 600000 >> file1.txt

Other examples are

seq 100 600000 >> file1.txt >>> 8MB
seq 1000 600000 >> file1.txt >>> 12MB
seq 10000 600000 >> file1.txt >>> 16MB

Command to create a file of XMB