The one-liner:

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

This is brilliant.

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago*

I would normally go much lower,

bs=4K count=262144 which creates 1G with 4K block size

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