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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to consume all available space on partition? Post 302897668 by joeyg on Tuesday 15th of April 2014 11:08:50 AM
Old 04-15-2014
Can be quite dangerous

Unless the disk is not actively used, the results of maximizing (completely filling) the drive can be very unpredictable. Since this is a production environment, I will assume that others read/write to the drive, and what any program may do when confronted with an inability to get space is simply unknown.

That said, there are some simple processes to fill a disk. However, I would like to know more about why first.
 

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