[17:52] <Kilroy> I need a file that is exactly 6.9 GB how would one go about creating that?
[18:21] <andol> Kilroy: Are you defining a GB as 10^9 or 2^30 bytes?
[18:24] <andol> In the first case you ought to be able to do something like this: dd if=/dev/urandom of=testfile bs=1000000 count=6900
[18:25] <andol> In the latter case I think you are ought of luck, since then 6.9 GB don't translate into an even number of bytes.
[18:35] <TJ-> Kilroy: For base 2 "echo "fallocate -l $(numfmt --from=iec 6.9G)" for base 10 "echo "fallocate -l $(numfmt --from=si 6.9G)"
[18:44] <Kilroy> thanks TJ- 
[18:46] <Kilroy> I get fallocate: invalid length value specified
[18:47] <TJ-> Kilroy: try the numfmt commands on their own to test
[18:48] <TJ-> Kilroy: I didn't run the fallocate commands to create anything, just verified the generated command worked
[18:49] <TJ-> Kilroy: you do need to add on a filename to create of course!
[18:50] <TJ-> Kilroy: e.g. for base 2: fallocate -l $(numfmt --from=iec 6.9G) myfile.bin
[18:55] <Kilroy> ok
[19:37] <rbasak> smoser: swtpm started. libtpms was already imported.
[19:49] <rbasak> swtpm is done