well, i actually found this; http://ca-linux.org/?p=58 hope its helpful to others. its a bash script doing dd, but in a more friendly way. On Oct 5, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > aurfalien at gmail.com wrote: >> Hi Chris, >> >> I'm actually just needing to create files of various sizes, not to be >> used in Xen tho. >> >> More for testing I/O chars of various thing. > > Just recall your last dd command back to the command line (ctl-r dd) > and > edit the number you put at the end for the 'count' argument. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos