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Testing file-size limits
Original post is here eklausmeier.goip.de/blog/2015/03-06-testing-file-size-limits.
For testing purposes you may want to provoke a file-size error. Here are the steps. Open a new bash
/xterm
. Set a file-size limit with ulimit
, then write a file with dd
.
ulimit -f 1
dd bs=1 iflag=count_bytes count=5000 if=/dev/zero of=yourFile
The resulting error is
File size limit exceeded (core dumped)
just as expected.