Re: dumb idea(s) (tm)

[matias <s0t4ipv6 () shellcode com ar>]

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 <aycan () mars prosoft com tr>"
> >
> > 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
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