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

Quick to execute or quick to type on a keyboard? If you use Python on Windows, you can try this:

cmd /k py -3 -c "with open(r'C:\Users\LRiffel\BigFile.bin', 'wb') as file: file.truncate(5 * 1 << 30)"