Mukund JB. wrote:
Dear all,
I have a truly miniature doubt here. sorry for asking this but I struggled
enough before coming here.
How do I print 8 byte (long long type) value in Linux?
long long in dw;
printf( "%lld",dw );
"man 3 printf"
Or did I not understand your question.
Regards,
M
bj wrote:
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When ever I use fdisk , and choose option n ( to add a partition ) , it
gives an error message saying that I need extended partition or I need to
delete old partition to create a new one .
But I have 40 GB of un used space on my hard drive.
You can only have 4 partitions per disk. I
Simon Valiquette wrote:
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I wanted a file of garbage, not zeroes.
So I tried: dd if=/dev/random of=file bs=1k count=1024
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You have read and written 1024 partial blocks (ie. not complete).
Why? I don't know.
You did'nt say if the produced file is always the same size, or
differents but
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I wanted a file of garbage, not zeroes.
So I tried: dd if=/dev/random of=file bs=1k count=1024
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That's exactly what it is supposed to do. Perhaps you tought
/dev/random could generate random numbers much faster. So when it's
entropy pool was exhausted after 4KB, you tought it stopped w
I have a follow up question.
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is there any way (some command) that will allow me to
create blank files with specific sizes, eg 1MB, 5MB, 10MB etc.
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dd if=/dev/zero of=file1 bs=1k count=1024
I wanted a file of garbage, not zeroes.
So I tried: dd if=/dev/random of=file bs=1k count=1024
But to
