The one-liner:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz
This is brilliant.
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The article writer kind of complains that they’re having to serve a 10MB file, which is the result of the gzip compression. If that’s a problem, they could switch to bzip2. It’s available pretty much everywhere that gzip is available and it packs the 10GB down to 7506 bytes.
That’s not a typo. bzip2 is way better with highly redundant data.