Doru Petrescu wrote: > > in regards to "Re: Antivirus scanner DoS with zip archives" by "Aycan > Irican <aycanat_private>" > > let's analize this idea some guy had ... he wanted to create a long file > without using disk space to store it ... > > $> perl -e 'print "A"x1000000000' | gzip -f | dd of=file1 > Out of memory! > 0+1 records in > 0+1 records out > > first, consider removing 'dd' ... try like this: I think dd(1) is the easiest way to do this, $ touch bighonkin.file && $ ls -l bighonkin.file -rw-r--r-- 1 cclark mis 0 Jun 29 11:45 bighonkin.file $ df . Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s2e 2421089 1447713 779689 65% /home $ dd if=/dev/zero of=bighonkin.file count=1 seek=1000m 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes transferred in 0.000462 secs (1108093 bytes/sec) $ ls -l bighonkin.file -rw-r--r-- 1 cclark mis 536870912512 Jun 29 11:45 bighonkin.file $ df . Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s2e 2421089 1447753 779649 65% /home -- Crist J. Clark Network Security Engineer crist.clarkat_private Globalstar, L.P. (408) 933-4387 FAX: (408) 933-4926 The information contained in this e-mail message is confidential, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact postmasterat_private
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