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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting creating file of 1MB using shell command? Post 302070333 by vino on Tuesday 4th of April 2006 06:00:23 AM
Old 04-04-2006
Look into man dd. Or better yet info dd
 

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ltsp-info(1)															      ltsp-info(1)

NAME
ltsp-info -- display troubleshooting information about ltsp server and chroots SYNOPSIS
ltsp-info DESCRIPTION
ltsp-info will display information useful to troubleshooting issues on an LTSP server. Information should include server distro and release, versions of LTSP related packages installed on the server, LTSP chroots and their package versions, LTSP image files and lts.conf(5). OPTIONS
--verbose Display more information, such as including the contents of detected files. --no-server-info Do not display server information. EXAMPLE
ltsp-info SEE ALSO
lts.conf(5) AVAILABILITY
ltsp-info is part of ltsp package and the latest versions are available in source form from https://launchpad.net/products/ltsp (link to URL https://launchpad.net/products/ltsp) . AUTHOR
Copyright 2006-2010 Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@freegeek.org>, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version. Vagrant Cascadian 20100129 ltsp-info(1)
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