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typo - corrected 1MB to 10MB (#29416)

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first command creates file with size of 10MB and not 1MB 
:~/prashant/test$ dd if=/dev/zero of=file_name.txt bs=1024k count=10
10+0 records in
10+0 records out
10485760 bytes (10 MB, 10 MiB) copied, 0.00991439 s, 1.1 GB/s
:~/prashant/test$ du -h file_name.txt
10M     file_name.txt
:~/prashant/test$
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@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ The "dd" command can be used to create a file of a specific size. This is useful
dd if=/dev/zero of=file_name.txt bs=1024k count=10 dd if=/dev/zero of=file_name.txt bs=1024k count=10
``` ```
This will create a file of 1MB called file_name.txt. This will create a file of 10MB called file_name.txt.
bs is your byte size and count represent the number of blocks. An easy way to look at is 1024K X 10. bs is your byte size and count represent the number of blocks. An easy way to look at is 1024K X 10.