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October 25, 2017

Quickly create a large file on a Linux system? - Stack Overflow
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Linux & all filesystems

xfs_mkfile 10240m 10Gigfile
Linux & and some filesystems (ext4, xfs, btrfs and ocfs2)

fallocate -l 10G 10Gigfile
OS X, Solaris, SunOS and probably other UNIXes

mkfile 10240m 10Gigfile
HP-UX

prealloc 10Gigfile 10737418240