A small script to clean your disk, preventing data recovery

clean_disk.py

import os
import time

total = 80       # the number of copied files, decided by your free disk space
times = 2        # clean times, the more, the better
big_file = 'xxx' # a big file, maybe a .zip file or others ...

for j in range(times):
    for i in range(total):
        tgt_path = '%03d' % i
        print(tgt_path)
        if not os.path.exists(tgt_path):
            os.makedirs(tgt_path)
            os.system('cp %s ~/%03d/' % (big_file, i))

    time.sleep(60)
    for i in range(total):
        os.system('rm -r ~/%03d' % i)

    print('finish clean disk\n')
    time.sleep(120)