Tiny program to fill your hard drive with characters of your choice.
Initially some terminal-script, but I got the idea to play a bit around with PyQt for a pretty UI.
And yes, it is usable. Learnt a lot.
Qt for C++ is nice, but PyQt is really easy and fast to develop. 👍
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
- run the script
python3 groundSpace.py - this is how the UI looks:
- set parameters for pattern, repetitions and click "Run"
- watch the progressbar move to 100% :'D
- if the "repeat"-checkbox is checked, then the file-writing will be repeated (until unchecked or the disk is full)
- after each cycle the throughput (speed) will be updated in the bottom-left
- fix the bug that the run-button is not disabled after starting the process (multiple runs happen ..)
- maybe add an option to abort the writing
- add option to delete the file at shutdown of the app