Create Files of Specific Size in Linux

You can use the dd command to quickly create a file of a specific size on a Linux system. Here is an example:

dd if=/dev/zero of=output_file bs=1M count=100

The above command will create a file named output_file with a size of 100MB. You can adjust the bs and count parameters according to your needs to specify the size of the file. In this case, bs specifies the block size and count specifies the number of blocks.

Additionally, you can use the truncate command to generate a file of a specific size, for example:

truncate -s 1G output_file

The above command will create a file named output_file, with a size of 1GB. You can modify the -s parameter as needed to specify the file size.