On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Crist Clark wrote: mother:/tmp$ touch bighonkin.file mother:/tmp$ ls -l bighonkin.file -rw-r----- 1 s0t4ipv6 users 0 Jul 2 10:53 bighonkin.file mother:/tmp$ df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 1984044 1606720 274912 85% / /dev/hdb1 2371820 1456960 794376 65% /opt mother:/tmp$ dd if=/dev/zero of=bighonkin.file count=1 seek=1000m dd: invalid number `1000m' mother:/tmp$ any idea? my system is slackware 7.0. thx > 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 > ================================================================ Matias Sedalo.______________________http://www.shellcode.com.ar/
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