MS Windows - Fast way to create big file

By xngo on September 9, 2020

You can use fsutil command to quickly create large file in MS Windows. However, this command requires administrative privilege. Here are some examples showing how to create a 1 kilobyte file, a 1 megabyte file and a 1 gigabyte file.

REM Create 1 KB file.
fsutil file createNew myBigFile-1KB.txt 1024

REM Create 1 MB file.
fsutil file createNew myBigFile-1MB.txt 1048576

REM Create 1 GB file.
fsutil file createNew myBigFile-1GB.txt 1073741824

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