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Super fast creation of large file in Linux

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Note: this will work ONLY on some filesystems like EXT4 (not on EXT3)

Source: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-create-lage-files-with-dd-command/

This entry was posted in Linux and tagged shortcut on February 4, 2017 by thtieig.

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