Re: Create Big size dummy File..

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From: NickHK (TungCheWah_at_Invalid.com)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:53:42 +0800

J,
Possibly 100 times that for Duane's initial 20Meg file.

NickHK

"J French" <erewhon@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:40da8bf3.4362552@news.btclick.com...
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:20:39 +0800, "NickHK" <TungCheWah@Invalid.com>
> wrote:
>
> >J,
> >Filled the disk completely, deleted and still get all Nulls on a FAT32
disk.
> >Using Duane's code above, increasing the the file size to 2 GB takes
> >appreciably longer, so the system must be doing something - writing Nulls
?
> >
>
> How interesting
> - by 'appreciably' do you think it is long enough to be really writing
> nulls ?
>
> A 2Gb file would involve a bit more work on the FAT
> - quite a lot of sectors to write

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