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Technology@lemmy.world • 4 days ago

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Technology@lemmy.world • 4 days ago

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The one-liner:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

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Yup, use something sensible like 10M or so.
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  I would normally go much lower,
  
  bs=4K count=262144 which creates 1G with 4K block size

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