Using DD to create a file of fixed size

[bazil2]

(Elelmentary user)

I would like to create a 50GB file on the server.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to_my/file/test bs=10000000000 count=1

This gives me a file of 1GB.

Is there anyway of making the input more 'human friendly', like:

mkfile 50GB test

Best regards

 

[KenCunningham]

This:

mkfile 50g test

works using Solaris 10. Can you man mkfile?

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[bazil2]

Unfortunately not!

I previously had an IRIX server and this part of the operating system.

 

[stefanwagner]

From man dd:

BLOCKS and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes: c =1, w =2, b =512, kB
=1000, K =1024, MB =1000*1000, M =1024*1024, xM =M GB =1000*1000*1000, G =1024*1024*1024, and so on
for T, P, E, Z, Y.

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