Tip: How to quickly fill whole disk space in Linux with one command ?
Today lets have a look at a short tip to quickly fill complete disk space of our hard drive in Linux with a single command.
It is an interesting and quick tip and the command “yes” is usually available on most of Linux flavors.
[root@nglinux ~]# df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 7.8G 6.0G 1.4G 82% / [root@nglinux ~]# date; nohup yes; date Tue Apr 23 22:48:15 PDT 2019 nohup: ignoring input and appending output to `nohup.out' Tue Apr 23 22:50:37 PDT 2019 [root@nglinux ~]# [root@nglinux ~]# df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 7.8G 7.8G 0 100% / [root@nglinux ~]# du -sh nohup.out 1.8G nohup.out

# nohup yes;
Make sure not to run this command on production server, otherwise it can bring the app down.
The command fills nohup.out file till space is filled.
Make sure not to run this command on production server, otherwise it can bring the app down.
The command fills nohup.out file till space is filled.