From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-05-16T16:22:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Create an empty file of certain size

2008/5/16 Mark Dodwell <seo@mkdynamic.co.uk>:
>> fd.truncate( 2 ** 20 )
>
> Thanks that's great, didn't know about that method!

If it does not work on your platform, you can speed up your solution
by writing larger chunks:

BUFFER = ("a" * 1024).freeze
File.open("tmp.txt", 'wb') { |f| 10.kilobytes.times { f.write BUFFER } }

Kind regards

robert

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