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Docs: Replaced dd command with fallocate/mkfile

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@@ -40,14 +40,18 @@ You can download them from my server.
Or generate them yourself: Or generate them yourself:
The `of=` specifies the output filename and `bs=` the filesize in bytes
where the M suffix is megabytes and G is gigabytes.
```sh ```sh
# 100mb.bin # on linux
dd if=/dev/zero of=100mb.bin bs=100M count=1 for i in 100m 10m 5m 1m; do fallocate -l $i "${i}b.bin"; done
# on macOS
for i in 100m 10m 5m 1m; do mkfile -n $i "${i}b.bin"; done
``` ```
These commands only create the files in the filesystem.
No bytes are actually written to the storage.
The suffix `m` is megabytes and `g` is gigabytes and so on.
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