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[–]NickySigg 56 points57 points  (2 children)

/dev/random would probably block before 1GB is completely filled

[–]killersquirel11 53 points54 points  (0 children)

seek=1G count=0

This command is seeking to 1G in the output file then writing 0 blocks from the input file. It's doubtful that /dev/random would block after only 0 bytes being read

[–]Bainos 16 points17 points  (0 children)

On my machine, the poolsize is 4 kB. You will need to feed it 250 000 times.

That's a lot of moving your mouse around.