Or if homogeneous data is fine, just cat or dd from a source like /dev/zero. | Hacker News

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		xphx on July 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A little story about the `yes` Unix command Or if homogeneous data is fine, just cat or dd from a source like /dev/zero.

drewzero1 on July 21, 2022 [–]

I think I've seen /dev/random used for generating large amounts of garbage data as well. (Though usually my problem is too much garbage data, not too little.)

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