Robert Watson wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Ivan Voras wrote: > >> Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: >> >>> What kind of C program or script did you have in mind? My C-foo is >>> very weak ... >> >> If you have python installed, this is a simple way: > > Also good is dd between the file system and /dev/null. Something worth > remembering is that some tools (cp(1) in particular) use memory-mapped > I/O, which may behave differently than raw I/O operations. You mean /dev/zero and dd with notrunc option? Yes, I didn't know about notrunc until now :)
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