On 21 May 2015 at 15:22, David Nellans <david@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > you're randwrite to a raw partition. if you had a filesystem on that > partition you were trying to use, then well, your data is gone/corrupted. > without a filesystem on it, i'm not sure how you'd think that your disc > usage has become "100%" without some xgui widgit warning you, so seems > likely you did something you didn't mean to with regards to writing to > /dev/sdb1 directly > > if you use fio on devices/partitions with a filesystem, you need to have it > write to files or it will trash your filesystem It's unlikely but it wasn't mentioned which partition became 100% full. You should also make sure that /dev/sdb1 really exists as a block device (e.g. via using file) otherwise you'll make/fill a standard file called /dev/sdb1 . -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html