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Technology@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

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Technology@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bo

The one-liner:

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

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Yup, use something sensible like 10M or so.
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  I would normally go much lower,
  
  bs=4K count=262144 which creates 1G with 4K block size

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