tnibert · September 12, 2019 02:49
diff --git a/filldisk.sh b/filldisk.sh
 # this will fill a disk to 5TB with one command, accounting for existing disk usage
 # $a will be in kilobytes, so it must be converted in the expr to units of 150MB
 # bs is set for efficiency, results on your disk may vary, if you change this, you'll need to change the number at the end in expr (currently 1024 * 150)
 # the sed command specifies line 9 of the output pulled from df -k, you will need to change for your df output
 dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/partition/bigfile bs=150MB count=$(let "a = 5368709120-`df -k | awk '{ print $3 "\t" }' | sed -n '9p'`"; expr $a / 153600)
	# this will fill a disk to 5TB with one command, accounting for existing disk usage
	# $a will be in kilobytes, so it must be converted in the expr to units of 150MB
	# bs is set for efficiency, results on your disk may vary, if you change this, you'll need to change the number at the end in expr (currently 1024 * 150)
	# the sed command specifies line 9 of the output pulled from df -k, you will need to change for your df output
	dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/partition/bigfile bs=150MB count=$(let "a = 5368709120-`df -k \| awk '{ print $3 "\t" }' \| sed -n '9p'`"; expr $a / 153600)