Hello Everyone,

I apologize in advance if this question sounds stupid or has been answered
already. I need to create large dummy files for testing. I would like to
know if there is a way to do it using C on OpenBSD.

This is what I want to achieve. I tried looking for "mkfile" command, but I
couldn't find it either.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/testing/file0 bs=512 count=65536


Thanks in advance.
-LOhit

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Hi,
first link in Google :
http://bytes.com/topic/c/answers/733896-how-create-large-files-c

Guillaume.

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Thanks Guillaume. So, it was the former :)


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dd if=/dev/zero of=/testing/file0 seek=1m count=1 bs=1
use seek=1024m for even larger files, and the best of it all, it
only takes a handful of bytes on disk, since it is sparse. Will still
read back zeros all the way if you "use" it later.


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