Java tutorial
import java.io.RandomAccessFile; import java.nio.MappedByteBuffer; import java.nio.channels.FileChannel; public class MainClass { static int length = 0x8FFFFFF; // 128 Mb public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { MappedByteBuffer out = new RandomAccessFile("test.dat", "rw").getChannel() .map(FileChannel.MapMode.READ_WRITE, 0, length); for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) out.put((byte) 'x'); System.out.println("Finished writing"); for (int i = length / 2; i < length / 2 + 6; i++) System.out.print((char) out.get(i)); } }