diff --git a/crates/bench/src/data_gen.rs b/crates/bench/src/data_gen.rs
index 8d5d675..e885ccc 100644
--- a/crates/bench/src/data_gen.rs
+++ b/crates/bench/src/data_gen.rs
@@ -83,11 +83,11 @@ pub fn generate_growable_file(dir: &Path) -> std::io::Result<PathBuf> {
 
 /// Append `count` lines to the file
 pub fn append_lines(path: &Path, count: usize) -> std::io::Result<()> {
+    let existing_lines = count_existing_lines(path)?;
     let mut file = BufWriter::with_capacity(
         64 * 1024,
         fs::OpenOptions::new().append(true).open(path)?,
     );
-    let existing_lines = count_existing_lines(path).unwrap_or(0);
     for i in 0..count {
         writeln!(
             file,
@@ -117,7 +117,12 @@ pub fn rotate_file(path: &Path) -> std::io::Result<PathBuf> {
 fn count_existing_lines(path: &Path) -> std::io::Result<u64> {
     let file = fs::File::open(path)?;
     let reader = BufReader::new(file);
-    Ok(reader.lines().count() as u64)
+    let mut count = 0u64;
+    for line in reader.lines() {
+        line?;
+        count += 1;
+    }
+    Ok(count)
 }
 
 #[cfg(test)]