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randint

Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:45 pm


Garbage Generator

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This program generates "garbage" files containing 0s until IOException is thrown because the space is filled


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mirhagk

Sat Feb 18, 2012 1:07 am


RE:Garbage Generator

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And the point is............. And this takes more than 5 seconds normally.......


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randint

Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:07 pm


RE:Garbage Generator

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Oh, the point of that, is to create garbage and other evil things


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Tony

Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:47 pm


RE:Garbage Generator

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well that is not very useful... it can also be accomplished in a single line, by copying content out of /dev/zero -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/zero


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DemonWasp

Sat Feb 18, 2012 6:25 pm


RE:Garbage Generator

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Funnily enough, he actually writes ASCII '0', which is 0x30, not 0x00.

Plus, it'll only ever saturate the logical volume it's run on, and even then writes a maximum of about 5.5TB. You could do this faster, better, and more accurately with: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4k

(Seriously though, don't run that. If you destroy your own system, it is completely and totally not my fault.)


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randint

Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:16 pm


RE:Garbage Generator

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chkdsk detected errors anyhow, but I do not know why though, could anyone tell me why this program is destructive?