creating large windows dummy files
with dos commands, contents with NULL-Bytes:
fsutil file createnew c:\temp\testfile.dat 4398046511104
with powershell using .NET function, contents with NULL-Bytes:
$f = new-object System.IO.FileStream c:\temp\testfile.dat, Create, ReadWrite
$f.SetLength(4500MB)
$f.Close()
$path = “C:\temp\testfile.dat”
$file = [io.file]::Create($path)
$file.SetLength(4gb)
$file.Close()
get-item $path