What is the easiest way to create a 2 GB file ?

I want to see how long this takes on a NFS ..

Thanks in advance

Sathyaram

funny ;-)

Hi

Have a look

dd if=/dev/zero of=${ 1} megs bs=10000000 count=$1

try passing different values for $1 and it will create file of different sizes

The value, 2000, is passed to the script and the dd command creates a file called 2000megs with 100 blocks, each 1MB in size, of buffered zeros


you could prefix a tiem in front of it to get the timing information like

time dd if=/dev/zero of=${ 1} megs bs=10000000 count=$1

regards
Hrishy