It seems that there are numerous run time commands that can be used, but I don’t have a week to spare to study them. The program started and indicated writing files, then a second lot which was taking too long, so I killed the program after five minutes. It installed the files (god knows where) but I tried running it.
Then I found that I could install bonnie++ execution files (and other items) using “sudo apt-get install bonnie++” under Ubuntu. It comprised more than 40 items with no execution files. The format was not recognised under my Linux Ubuntu, but I decompressed it via Windows. I had never heard of Bonnie++, but I downloaded the tar.gz file. For those with experience with it, would running bonnie++ from stresslinux hit me with the same problems? I have also come across stress linux which is a minimal live distro which comes equipped with bonnie++ among a slew of other benchmarks and hardware stress testing utilities. Regarding suggestion, I am still researching that as an option. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could go about writing to the raid drives from a bootable USB?
Considering the system I'm testing has 12 1TB drives in raid 6 I believe that bonnie++ is performing the test on the files system of the USB stick and not the drives on the raid configuration. From there I was able to run bonnie++: bonnie++ -d /tmp/foo -r $(free -m | grep 'Mem:' | awk '') -u root:rootbut during the test I got the following error Writing intelligently.Can't write block.: No space left on device. I plugged it into the system I was wanting to test and booted into Ubuntu. I was able to get Ubuntu 12.04 and bonnie++ onto a flash drive. Am I missing a step or is what I'm attempting to do not possible? But when I attempt to run something like gcc -v I get a gcc command not found error. I connected the stick to the desired system, mounted it, and added the gcc directory to the path. I have gotten everything to build properly and copied onto a USB stick. I have followed these instructions step by step: Here are the steps that I've taken so far. The OS is a stripped down version of Linux and the OS drive capacity is severely limited so installing anything directly onto it is not an option. You should now be booting into Ubuntu Linux from a USB flash drive.Is it possible to build GCC to run off of a USB stick? I'm looking to run some HDD benchmarks such as bonnie++, which requires GCC, on a number of systems that don't have internet access or GCC. Also set the “Hard Disk Boot Priority” if necessary.
Move the Ubuntu 6.10 ISO downloaded earlier to the USB folder.
Using Windows to prepare and move the files to the USB Stick:
How to Partition and make a USB flash drive bootable: You can always use the Universal USB Installer instead, as it can be used to install the latest versions.
Note: This manual command line based tutorial is older and may or may not work as expected on newer versions. How to Make a Ubuntu USB from the command line
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