Tips&tricks

empty file

root@test:/tmp# dd if=/dev/zero of=templun3 count=0 obs=1 seek=200G
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes (0 B) copied, 4.1537e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s
root@test:/tmp# ls -al *lun3*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 214748364800 2008-05-03 04:43 templun3