How To Create Dummy Files With Dummy File Sizes For Testing Purposes

In this blog, you will learn how to create dummy files with dummy file sizes for testing purposes.

Introduction

 

Let’s explore a simple way to create a dummy file, say with a 20 GB size for any testing purposes in our expected file path in a local desktop using the command prompt.

• Open CMD using Start Menu
• Create the required file path if not created before by running: md <file/folders/sub folders>
• Go to the path by running: cd <file path>
• Run the below commands as per the given snap:

Fsutil file createnew dummyfile.dat 20000000000

 

• The Dummy file gets created in the above-mentioned File PDrive Path with the mentioned dummy size say 20GB.
• Include this file also for your SPMT Migration Test cases.

Conclusion

 

Finally, we were able to create a dummy file with the required size for any migration testing purposes. We can run this multiple times for creating a bulk number of dummy files with dummy sizes for quick testing purposes like files reading/downloading via Windows PowerShell and get to know the time taken for each kind of operation.

 

Cheers!!