Why calculate the sizes when you can just use cat until it stops because the disk is full?
cat /dev/zero > /mnt/yourfilesystem/thebigfile BTW don't forget to proberly umount /mnt/yourfilesystem afterwards, of course, to force a sync. (Just in case there might be a file system that doesn't send the data immediately to the block device, you might want to umount right after filling the disk, *before* removing the file.) Ch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
