my school account is only supposed to have 4 megs on it, but they accidentaly assigned the entire network of storage space to me . I need to fill it, now. Whats the easiest way?
[1] make a folder [2] move a file into it [3] GOTO 1 do that until every file, bar OS required files, is in its own folder with another folder - it'll take years to get each file Thats more cruelty than filespace... you could download the GNU GPL and copy it as many times as possible... might make for an interesting way of advertising for free software
Write a program that puts "0" in a file over and over again. Depending on the spec of the system you might want it to create a new file every 100mb or so. That should fill it nice and fast (quicker than you could download off of the net).
Reason I suggested 100Mb is the quickest program would generate the files on ram then write them to HD as it generated the next file, best utilisation of an entire system. So if its a piece of poo machine with 256mb ram, its gonna be in pain with 4gb files
actually, I made a program to do exactly that. except it was the capital letter "A." did that after getting a new 120 gig hdd, and didn't quite need it yet. I made it write about 100 A's at a time. got to around 2 gb in just a few seconds. (well, however long it took to write that many gbs) also, you should note that you could get into lots of trouble doing that. a friend of mine fired up a 3d rendering program, and since out techies didn't limit our access well enough into eachothers folders. he created over 32 thousand 1x1 jpg images into someones folder. he deserved it though. but he almost got expelled. so, I would advize caution on your pursuit of using too much file space. and 300 gigs.. that seems a bit nuts to be honest. my school (with 800 kids) had a 30 gig drive for graphics, and 15 gig one for everyone else. (about 60 or so were using the 30 with large files, rendered movies and such.)
