The one-liner:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

This is brilliant.

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[–] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Funny part is many of us crusty old sysadmins were using derivatives of this decades ago to test RAID-5/6 sequencial reads and write speeds.

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