Now thats one big pepperoni pizza!

Get ready to laugh a little …

landman@metal:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=big-huge-file-system-target.img bs=1k seek=2T count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1024 bytes (1.0 kB) copied, 4.4349e-05 s, 23.1 MB/s
landman@metal:~$ ls -alF big-huge-file-system-target.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 landman landman 2251799813686272 2009-09-04 17:25 big-huge-file-system-target.img
landman@metal:~$ ls -alhF big-huge-file-system-target.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 landman landman 2.1P 2009-09-04 17:25 big-huge-file-system-target.img

2.1PB file … eh ? Not so much …

landman@metal:~$ ls -aslhF big-huge-file-system-target.img
4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 landman landman 2.1P 2009-09-04 17:25 big-huge-file-system-target.img

Yeah … maybe … not so much … 4k file … yeah, I can believe that !