FIO_GENERATE_PLOTS(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, say hi to fio_generate_plots — she makes plots for the Flexible I/O Tester ✨ literally a whole visual glow-up for your fio data 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

fio_generate_plots title

like… that's it. one (1) argument. she's low maintenance 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this page is the brief lil rundown of the fio_generate_plots command, and ngl it exists for a very specific reason: it was written for the Debian distribution, because the original program just… does not have a manual page. not one. so Debian said "fine, we'll do it ourselves" and here we are 🫶

fio_generate_plots is a shell script that uses gnuplot to generate plots from fio runs that were done with --latency-log (-l) and/or --bandwidth-log (-w). the way that you need to run fio with those flags first is so real — no logs, no plots, periodt.

it expects the log files that fio generated to be sitting in the current directory 📂 so like, be in the right folder, bestie, or she will not find them and it's giving 💀

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• title — the script takes the title of the plot as its only argument 🌈 she does not offer any additional options. zero. none. no flags to collect, no secret menu, that's the whole vibe check 👑

👑 AUTHOR 👑

fio_generate_plots was written by Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> — iconic, legendary, we stan 😭💜

this manual page was written by Martin Steigerwald <ms@teamix.de>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others) — so like, share the love, it's not gatekept 🎀

and that's the whole thing, bestie 💅 this cutie came out of the General Commands Manual and was dated May 19, 2009 — yes, 2009, she's been serving plots since before some of us could read, and she's still eating 🔥 go make something pretty, mwah 💖🌸