How to Test Disk IO Speed with a Large Temp File

Posted on October 21, 2008 by Masao

Create a 1GB temp file fast:

time dd if=/dev/zero of=FileOfZeros.txt bs=1024k count=1024

Useful for testing disk IO speed.

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