A small gzip file, but large after uncompressed

2023-11-17

I found a funy way to make a small gzip file, but after uncompressed it will be huge. Sometime this trick will be useful.

$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=10240 | gzip > 10G.gzip
$ du -sh 10G.gzip
$ 10M 10G.gzip