[clug] Who has better dd foo than I?
Andrew Janke
a.janke at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 19:53:20 MDT 2012
SITREP: I have a big new raid volume that I want to "release" to the
masses slowly. Call it social engineering "oh the disk is 90% full
better clean up before I run that".
In the past I have done this by creating hidden files in the root dir
of the partition and slowly removed them over time. You fill them with
zeros and a backup system that compresses files will take no notice of
them.
ie:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/export/big-disk01/.10TB count=10000000
This of course takes a while. Playing games like this (sparse file)
is very quick:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/export/big-disk01/.10TB count=1 seek=10000000
It does create a file of this size but of course du and df don't take
much notice. I have also found this:
http://sandeen.fedorapeople.org/utilities/fallocate.c
But I think it will suffer the same problem, I say think as I haven't tried it.
So: how would you make a big file quickly to fill a disk up (before
the users find it)?
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