#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $count = shift || die "Usage: $0 count [dir] [chunk-size]\n"; my $dir = shift || "stasis_log/"; my $sz = shift || "64M"; system("mkdir -p $dir"); for(my $i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) { my $file = sprintf("log-chunk-%020d~", $i); print("Writing $file\n"); system("dd if=/dev/zero of=$dir/$file bs=$sz count=1\n"); }