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johan added how to create arbitrary sized files
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         Lun 0 Path=/​dev/​sdX,​Type=fileio         Lun 0 Path=/​dev/​sdX,​Type=fileio
  
-Where **Path** can be any block device (including regular block devices like hdX and sdX and virtual block devices like LVM and Software RAID devices) or regular files.+Where **Path** can be any block device (including regular block devices like hdX and sdX and virtual block devices like LVM and Software RAID devices) or regular files. ​If you use a regular file you need to make it as big as you want the target device to be. This will get you a 1 GB file:
  
 +  root@novBackup:​~#​ dd if=/​dev/​zero of=/​tmp/​myfile bs=1024 count=1000000
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 +Setup complete!

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