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# 1  
Old 11-14-2012
Script to fill the file system mount with empty files to desired size

We are regularly using for our testing, where we are manually filling up the mount with desired size with following command

Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=file_2GB bs=2048000 count=2000

We are planning to automate the task where taking input for % [(say 70% of mount size)]of size as one input and the name of the file system mount as other input. Could you please help me on this.

Thanks,
Chandra
# 2  
Old 11-14-2012
Code:
threshold=80
FStoFill=/tmp
set -- $(df -k $FStoFill | tail -1)
dd if=/dev/zero of=$FStoFill/zerofile.$$ bs=1k count=$((($threshold*$2/100)-$3))

But the dd command above may be set up to be faster (search for the msg posted by Alister )

The idea was to use /dev/null instead, as well as seek to avoid a bunch of useless zero writting so something like :

Code:
dd if=/dev/null of=dummy seek=37580963840 bs=1

Just tweak it in a way you can replace the dd if=/dev/zero... of the first code with the more optimized dd if=/dev/null ... command

Last edited by ctsgnb; 11-14-2012 at 03:27 PM..
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Old 11-14-2012
Hello,

I tried to run the below code and getting the following error. could you please help.

dd: bad arg -5211234
Usage: dd [if=InputFile] [of=OutputFile] [cbs=Number] [fskip=Number]
[skip=Number] [seek=Number] [count=Number] [bs=Number] [span=yes|no]
[ibs=Number] [obs=Number] [files=Number] [conv=Parameter[, ...]]


Here is the code that i am using.

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
threshold=20
FStoFill=/tmp
set -- $(df -k $FStoFill | tail -1)
dd if=/dev/zero of=$FStoFill/zerofile.$$ bs=1 count=$((($threshold*$2/100)-$3))

# 4  
Old 11-14-2012
What arguments are you running the script with?
# 5  
Old 11-14-2012
what output does
Code:
df -k yourfilesystem | tail -1

give ?

Maybe this will be more reliable :
Code:
threshold=70
FStoFill=/tmp
set -- $(df -k $FStoFill | tail -1 | awk '{$1=$1;print $(NF-4),$(NF-3)}')
dd if=/dev/zero of=$FStoFill/dummy bs=1K count=$((($threshold*$1/100)-$2-1064))

Keep some space of 1064K in case threshold is set at 100% (i dont know why this 1064 number but it worked fine so...).
You should add some test on the threshold : (should not be set higher than 100%, and should not be set lower than current use)

Last edited by ctsgnb; 11-14-2012 at 06:51 PM..
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Old 11-14-2012
Here is the output i am getting for the below command
Code:
 df -k /tmp | tail -1
/dev/hd3          5767168   5557264    4%      811     1% /tmp

Please let me know wt are the expected parameters. i was running with out parameters as the threshold and filesystem has been added in the script.

Thanks,
Chandra
# 7  
Old 11-14-2012
In :
Code:
count=$((($threshold*$1/100)-$2-1064))

$1 is supposed to refer to the total number of 1K block
$2 is supposed to refer to the number of block currently in use

So you should adapt the code to make the right calculation:
Code:
set -- $(df -k $FStoFill | tail -1 | awk '{$1=$1;print $(NF-5),$(NF-5)-$(NF-4)}')
dd if=/dev/zero of=$FStoFill/dummy bs=1K count=$((($threshold*$1/100)-$2-1064))

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