pyFiller

A tool that literally takes up space!

When you need to fill some filesystem space with patterned or random data, pyFiller fulfills your space-filling needs

Run pyfiller --help for usage details

Common examples

• Fill the specified (existing) folder with random data, up to the limit of the filesystem:

    pyfiller --totalsize fill Y:\
  

• Create 200MiB files with random data, to a maximum of 750.5MiB, with colorful output:

    pyfiller --filesize 200MiB --totalsize 750.5MiB --colorful Y:\
  

• Create one 42MiB file with patterned data with colorful output:

    pyfiller --filesize 42MiB --totalsize 42MiB --pattern 0xA5FF00 --colorful Y:\
    pyfiller --filesize 42MiB --totalsize 42MiB --pattern "J=8675309 " --colorful Y:\
  

Updating this package

Clone this repo

On a branch, make the required edits

Ensure you update the version number in pyfiller/__config__.py (pre-release? use rc notation, e.g., 1.0.42rc99)

Build and install the distributable wheel

rm -rf pyfiller-* dist build *.egg-info
python setup.py bdist_wheel sdist
ls -al dist
pip uninstall -y pyfiller
pip install dist/*.whl

Test the tools

The main tool is pyfiller

Run:

pyfiller --help

Test the uploaded artifacts

pip uninstall -y pyfiller
pip install pyfiller