Quickly create large file on a Windows system

Question

In the same vein as Quickly create a large file on a Linux system, I\'d like to quickly create a large file on a Windows system. By large I\'m thinking 5 GB.

Answer 1

Short of writing a full application, us Python guys can achieve files of any size with four lines, same snippet on Windows and Linux (the os.stat() line is just a check):

>>> f = open('myfile.txt','w')
>>> f.seek(1024-1) # an example, pick any size
>>> f.write('\x00')
>>> f.close()
>>> os.stat('myfile.txt').st_size
1024L
>>>