> > man mkfile
>
>First of all, I still don't even understand his question.

I assumed he meant "How do I make a very big file as quickly as possible?"

> Secondly, I don't have an mkfile on my system...

I guess it's a Solarisism. If you don't have it, then:

dd if=/dev/zero of=newfile bs=1 oseek=<size-1> count=1

The above command will make a sparse file, with disk space only allocated for the last block. To allocate disk space for the entire file, use:

dd if=/dev/zero of=newfile bs=<size> count=1

Barry Margolin