Re: Free Space Monster (episode 2)

On 2007-06-20 16:43:33 -0500, Mark Conrad <noneof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

In article <46782abe$0$12100$c3e8da3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Warren Oates <warren.oates@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Horse pucky! It's trivial to create a new file, of any size, filled with
zeros with a one-line shell command.

touch test.txt
cat /dev/zero > test.txt

let it run for about 5 minutes, Mark.

Thanks very much.

Wish there was a way to fill it with with other patterns, like hex 30.
(or ASCII 0, whichever one prefers to call it)

It *is* possible, Mr. I-Don't-Read-Man-Pages.

--
JR

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