pkg_install lsof # /mnt/spare: a 1 GiB logical volume. d0=$(disk_add 0 1100M) pvcreate -q "$d0" >/dev/null vgcreate -q labvg "$d0" >/dev/null lvcreate -q -y -L 1G -n spare labvg >/dev/null mkfs.ext4 -q /dev/labvg/spare # /mnt/small: few inodes. d1=$(disk_add 1 64M) mkfs.ext4 -q -N 2048 "$d1" mkdir -p /mnt/spare /mnt/small sed -i '/# le-lab 4-5$/d' /etc/fstab echo "/dev/labvg/spare /mnt/spare ext4 defaults,nofail 0 2 # le-lab 4-5" >>/etc/fstab echo "UUID=$(blkid -s UUID -o value "$d1") /mnt/small ext4 defaults,nofail 0 2 # le-lab 4-5" >>/etc/fstab systemctl daemon-reload mount /mnt/spare mount /mnt/small # Task 1: a few large files. mkdir -p /mnt/spare/backups /mnt/spare/media /mnt/spare/home/alice /mnt/spare/logs fallocate -l 140M /mnt/spare/backups/db-2026-10-01.tar fallocate -l 140M /mnt/spare/backups/db-2026-10-15.tar fallocate -l 200M /mnt/spare/media/install.iso fallocate -l 60M /mnt/spare/home/alice/photos.tar echo "remember the milk" >/mnt/spare/home/alice/notes.txt # Task 2: a program holding a deleted 250 MiB log. cat >/usr/local/bin/applog <<'X' #!/bin/bash # Appends to its log forever. exec 3>>/mnt/spare/logs/app.log while :; do echo "$(date +%T) working" >&3 sleep 30 done X chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/applog cat >/etc/systemd/system/applog.service <<'X' [Unit] Description=Lab application that writes a log RequiresMountsFor=/mnt/spare [Service] ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/applog X fallocate -l 250M /mnt/spare/logs/app.log systemctl daemon-reload systemctl start applog.service sleep 1 rm -f /mnt/spare/logs/app.log # Task 3: a journal past 200 MB. if [ ! -d /var/log/journal ]; then mkdir -p /var/log/journal systemd-tmpfiles --create --prefix /var/log/journal journalctl --flush state_set made-journal 1 fi head -c 260M /dev/urandom | base64 -w 45000 | systemd-cat -t lab-filler sleep 2 # Task 4: a few files to start with. mkdir -p /mnt/small/docs /mnt/small/conf for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do echo "doc $i" >/mnt/small/docs/doc$i.txt; done for i in 1 2 3; do echo "setting$i=on" >/mnt/small/conf/app$i.conf; done # Task 5: logs to rotate. rm -f /etc/logrotate.d/myapp mkdir -p /var/log/myapp chmod 755 /var/log/myapp for f in app worker; do for i in 1 2 3; do echo "$(date +%F) $f: line $i"; done >/var/log/myapp/$f.log done