On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Neil Hoggarth wrote:

> BTW, having just looked at this, it looks to me like we've now got the
> ability to swap on files on the filesystem, but we don't seem to have
> a mkfile command to conveniently make multi-megabyte files for the
> purpose - am I missing something?

Simplest way to create large empty files is

dd if=/dev/zero of=myfile bs=1m count=64

Cheers,
				Mark