you can find larger .bin/.run file files of nexpose and metaspolilt http://www.metasploit.com/download/
but they are quite large ~200MB
Can I use dd on a directory? in same way... like.. I used this dd bs=1M count=100 if=file of=part1
]]>By the way. question on dd. How will it work with tar file? Will it break it somehow if I will try to get first 10MB? It is a tarred source file.
]]>well.. maybe not.. I saw something like libcude and libgtk that is ~4MB
]]>You could find a binary that's greater than your desired size and dd the first 10 (or 15, etc.) MBs of it to another file.
Just make sure you dd from it and not to it
Also, maybe you could use something from lib instead of bin.
Thanks. I didn't know about I could do that with dd, thanks. Maybe it can help me get all files exactly to 10MB.
Where could I find lib files?
]]>Just make sure you dd from it and not to it
Also, maybe you could use something from lib instead of bin.
]]>So I am trying to find workload that can be most optimal to Linux environment. I would like to have all files to be the about the same size.. and I decide to pick file size range of 10MB to 15MB.
I have some source code that I used for evaluation. But I also need some kind of executable... but I am wondering if any of the executables in linux will be useful as workload for this.... I am basically trying to test compression of a binary file.
]]>Maybe you should give more info on what you're trying to do; I'd guess that, if you're trying to benchmark something, you intend to share the results later. It's better to get feedback on your goals and methodology before going through all the trouble.
]]>Well...What I am looking for is a binary installation file (like .bin or .run). Something that can be similar to .exe in Windows.
Most of the stuff that I tried to look online are either .deb or .rmp (which how I understand are gzip or bzip2 compressed files with some extensions, right?). I am looking for purely binary installation executable.
(I am trying to use it as benchmark file)
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