Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Populating a Filesystem with Random Data

Occasionally, I test filesystems. Especially since Ext4 was taken into the Linux kernel, I've set up a couple of partitions and used them for storing data. Sometimes, you don't want to copy existing data on new filesystems when testing. Why not use random data? Now, where is the tool for doing that? I asked The Answer Gang, and so got another excus

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