LKBEN10698: Howto create a file with a certain length under windows
Symptom
You need a file with a certain size for testing some performance problems
Cause
none
Solution
You can use the fsutil command line for creating a file with a certain length.
The following will create a file of 1000 bytes:
E:\>fsutil file createnew c:\temp\1000.txt 1000
This will create a file with 100 MB
E:\>fsutil file createnew c:\temp\100000000.txt 100000000
For more information you can use the /? parameter
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Author: - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.