Big file generator?

I want to test out a hard disk by generating a large file (let's say
20Gb) to it. I don't care what its contents actually are, it could be
random as far as I can.

Is there such a utility to do this?

Mark Carter wrote:
> I want to test out a hard disk by generating a large file (let's say
> 20Gb) to it. I don't care what its contents actually are, it could be
> random as far as I can.
>
> Is there such a utility to do this?

File Generator 1.0 --> http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?21000000037189

It's a small (80k), Stand-Alone application.

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> "K3" <k3@(86_THE_SPAM)maine.rr.com> wrote:

>>Mark Carter wrote:

>> I want to test out a hard disk by generating a large file (let's say
>> 20Gb) to it. I don't care what its contents actually are, it could be
>> random as far as I can.

>> Is there such a utility to do this?

>File Generator 1.0 --> http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?21000000037189

>It's a small (80k), Stand-Alone application.

Pretty cool! If, for some reason it doesn't work I have a utility that
can easily be can be altered to do this. It currently writes 1, 5, 10,
50 and 100 meg files and a million character file with no line breaks.





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Mark Carter wrote:

Apologies for changing the subject. The ACF info post seems to have gone
on vacation. . .

Susan
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REM wrote:
>>"K3" <k3@(86_THE_SPAM)maine.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
>>>Mark Carter wrote:
>
>
>>>I want to test out a hard disk by generating a large file (let's say
>>>20Gb) to it. I don't care what its contents actually are, it could be
>>>random as far as I can.
>
>
>>>Is there such a utility to do this?
>
>
>>File Generator 1.0 --> http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?21000000037189

causes an "illegal instruction" on xp sp2

Susan Bugher wrote:

> Mark Carter wrote:
>
> Apologies for changing the subject. The ACF info post seems to have gone
> on vacation. . .

My script keeps generating the error:
nntplib.NNTPTemporaryError: 441 437 EMP rejected (md5)
.... whatever that means.

It was working in the past. I'm wondering if the newsgroup server is
rejecting this email, thinking it to be spam, or something. Sorting that
one out is going to be a drag.

You may also notice that the wiki isn't working, either. An attempt to
upload an improved wiki cgi script failed; causing the original script
to be deleted, and the wiki to cease working. I'm having upload
difficulties to my web host. I'm not sure of the cause. Maybe it's a
firewall problem.

The good news, though, is that the daily posting summaries have now been
reinstated after a directory changeover. Don't forget that they are
blogged over at:
http://markcarterturriff.blogspot.com/

>On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:53:54 +0000, Mark Carter <cartermark46@ukmail.com> wrote:

>I want to test out a hard disk by generating a large file (let's say
>20Gb) to it. I don't care what its contents actually are, it could be
>random as far as I can.
>
>Is there such a utility to do this?
>
http://www.funduc.com/dupblock.htm

> I want to test out a hard disk by generating a large file (let's say
> 20Gb) to it. I don't care what its contents actually are, it could be
> random as far as I can.
>
> Is there such a utility to do this?

If you already have the UNIX like environment via the wonderful
www.cygwin.com then you can easily generate test data with the dd command

dd if=/dev/zero of=bigzero bs=1048576 count=1024

Uses zero input, writing blocks of 1 megabyte, 1024 blocks (= 1 GByte)

dd if=/dev/random of=bigrandom bs=1048576 count=1024

Uses random input

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> Mark Carter <cartermark46@ukmail.com> wrote:

>>REM wrote:

>>>>I want to test out a hard disk by generating a large file (let's say
>>>>20Gb) to it. I don't care what its contents actually are, it could be
>>>>random as far as I can.

>>>>Is there such a utility to do this?

>>>File Generator 1.0 --> http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?21000000037189

>causes an "illegal instruction" on xp sp2

Bummer. It looked like a perfect small app. I'll get going tomorrow
morning and modify the program I was using to test text editor
capacity if no one comes up with another solution.


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REM <REMbranded@inu.net> wrote in
news:mb1dv05nmevu4fkrjea54rb3ehnkrnklbf@4ax.com:

>> Mark Carter <cartermark46@ukmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>REM wrote:
>
>>>>>I want to test out a hard disk by generating a large file (let's say
>>>>>20Gb) to it. I don't care what its contents actually are, it could be
>>>>>random as far as I can.
>
>>>>>Is there such a utility to do this?
>
>>>>File Generator 1.0 --> http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?21000000037189
>
>>causes an "illegal instruction" on xp sp2
>
> Bummer. It looked like a perfect small app. I'll get going tomorrow
> morning and modify the program I was using to test text editor
> capacity if no one comes up with another solution.
>
>

point your browser here, i have 2 apps that will make any file up to 2 gig.

ftp://silversurfers:silversurfers@82.20.122.105:40412


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