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How to create large dummy file

When your initernet service does not work as intended Aus Net Servers Australia Pty Ltd may ask you to create several .bin files and update these files to our FTP Server and capture some screenshots of the upload process. To be able to successful 

Fsutil.exe
 is a built in filesystem tool that is useful to do file system related operations from command line. We can create a file of required size using this tool.

syntax to create a file:

fsutil file createnew filename length
(length is in bytes)

For example, to create a dummy file test.txt, with size as 50MB :

 
fsutil file createnew test.txt 52428800

Note that the above command creates a sparse file which does not have any real data. If you want to create a file with real data then you can use the below command line script.

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