Turns out it’s quite annoyingly difficult to create a 5GB txt file titled “test.txt”

@rutee07 yes I can’t get that out of my memory lol

dd if=/dev/urandom of=test.txt bs=5G bs=1

@systemctl what

@Bubbles dd if=/dev/urandom of=test.txt bs=64M count=80

Creates a file called "test.txt" with an input of /dev/urandom and outputs the first 5G of that.

@systemctl oh thats a lot better than how I did it

Just open up vim and have someone who's never used it try to exit 😂

@djlazz3 that’ll never fail

@theKarlisK unless they use google or get bored

Unix has dd.
Good luck doing it on Windows, you can't even specify an exact limit...

@kescherRant Windows even calculates Gigabytes as Gibibytes, good luck won't be enough :p

@kescherRant I did it on Windows but it was annoying.

@systemctl holy FUCK, the fucking American standardized Gigabytes are SI Gibibytes, and I still hate that because it definitely interferes with the SI Gigabytes...

@kescherRant imagine copying and pasting 1 GB worth of text and waiting to see if the editor crashes or not. VSCode crashed the easiest I’ll tell you that

@theKarlisK it’ll probably be so much easier

@theKarlisK fuck probably. Sublime is what got me through it, even though it struggled harshly

@Bubbles I guess Notepad++ on Windows or any CLI text editor just takes long, but will not crash (at least if 64bit)

@kescherRant it crashed for me but if I have to do it again I’ll try to use it. But it handled it really well

@Bubbles On Windows, Notepad++ is usually the last thing before I whip out the nano included in Git for Windows lol

@kescherRant CLI editors could most likely handle it

@Bubbles Nano is slow if you write a Gigabyte of text into a single line ;)
(But so is Notepad++)

@kescherRant yeah

@theKarlisK fuck

On windows, echo some string into a file in a for loop should do.

Or a quick hack in the scripting language of your choice (python, lua, perl could even do it on the interpreter prompt).

@ddephor that method was brought to my attention when I hit 3GB so I just thought I’m half way there might as well go all the way

@Bubbles

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/...

Take a look here.

@bubbles can't you just rename any file from inside a node_modules folder?

@IntrusionCM I didn’t know that existed

@nibor you are correct, but that’s much more than 5 😂

@Bubbles

I thought so. :) Hope it helps

@halfflat that’s exactly what I used

@Bubbles That's it, now I'm going to test online lipsum generators by telling them to generate gigabytes of data.

@Bubbles if you already had 1GB and you wanted to paste it multiple times, you could've just used cmd and redirected output to append to a file...

@haze I’ve never done that before

@Bubbles command line is very powerful, even on Windows. ;) Redirecting input/output/err is everywhere.

Also, on Windows /? as arg is pretty universal to get help.
Since XP was the last Windows that had a somewhat good defrag gui, so I always defrag from there. First defrag /? because I never remember options, then with flags.

Now I mainly work on Linux because work. And I use redirecting output there if e.g. I have to analyse it and prefer to do it on my machine (I have to execute a lot of things remotely).

Linux:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test.txt bs=1M count=5000

Windows:
fsutil file createnew test.txt 5000000000

(this doesn't wipe and reallocate all the space immediately like most file creation methods, it just adds the file to the FAT/MFT and calls it good. This makes the creation process almost instant, even when making one file that's several TB large.)

@Bubbles Windows entirely grinds to a halt when more than a couple hundred MB is copied to the universal clipboard.