crfile
Package: WA2L/edrc 1.5.57
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 05 November 2008
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NAME
crfile - create a dump file with a certain size
 
SYNOPSIS
edrc/bin/crfile
[
-h
]
crfile
{
-k
|
-m
|
-g
}
size
-f filename
 
AVAILABILITY
WA2L/edrc
 
DESCRIPTION
Create a dump file with a size to be specified. 
Ahead of writing the file, it is checked if the file size does not
exceed the available space on the file system.
 
OPTIONS
- -h
 - 
usage message.
 - -k
 - 
file
size
specified in 
kilobytes. 
 - -m
 - 
file
size
specified in 
megabytes. 
 - -g
 - 
file
size
specified in 
gigabytes. 
 - size 
 - 
file size.
 - -f filename
 - 
name of the dump file to be created.
 
 
ENVIRONMENT
-
 
EXIT STATUS
- 0
 - 
no error.
 - 1
 - 
crfile
cannot write to the file specified in the 
-f
option.
 - 2
 - 
operating system not supported, yet. See 
osid(3)
if you get this error.
 - 3
 - 
file size of dump file exceeds available filesystem space. 
 - 4
 - 
usage listed.
 - 5
 - 
file creation aborted.
 - 6
 - 
the
size
specified was not greater then 0. 
 - 7
 - 
file specified in the
-f
option already exists.
 - 11
 - 
a temporary directory could not be claimed or created in 
/tmp.
Check  the  system  temporary  directory
/tmp
if you get this error, it is an indicator of system intrusion.
 
 
FILES
-
 
EXAMPLES
-
 
SEE ALSO
bdf(1),
df(1),
edrcintro(1),
 
NOTES
-
 
BUGS
-
 
AUTHOR
crfile was developed by Christian Walther. Send suggestions
and bug reports to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .
 
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2008
Christian Walther
This is free software; see
edrc/doc/COPYING
for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not
even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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