> Under NetBSD you could use:
>   
>    dd if=/dev/zero of=foo.swap bs=8327168
> (i think)

Well, you probably want "count=1" as well, if you want just an 8 meg
file.  To avoid paging to death, if the file is a significant fraction
of main memory, you may want to do something like (eg, for a 64 meg
file)

	dd if=/dev/zero bs=1048576 count=64 of=foo.swap

(which needs only 1M of VM for dd buffering) instead of

	dd if=/dev/zero bs=67108864 count=1 of=foo.swap

(which demands 64M of VM for dd buffering).  Indeed, the only reason to
not push the bs= figure down and the count= figure up even more is the
syscall overhead incurred - bs=64 count=1048576, for example, is almost
certain to be insanely slow.

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