[SOLVED] Log hard drive read/writes

Chris Denton · 2010-07-24 06:36:08

Is it possible to monitor everytime a file on the hard drive is read from or written to and to add that information to a log?

Last edited by Chris Denton (2010-07-25 10:32:57)

mikesd · 2010-07-24 06:54:28

Yes. Check out inotify.
http://wiki.github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/

fukawi2 · 2010-07-24 07:11:56

The only problem I see is that you'll end up with an endless loop...

1) Disk get's written to
2) inotify writes a log about the write
3) Go to step 1

Last edited by fukawi2 (2010-07-24 07:12:10)

JackH79 · 2010-07-24 07:16:23

You can filter it. See: http://wiki.github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/#info

Chris Denton · 2010-07-24 10:21:30

Thanks. That seems to be working quite well.

One problem though, I notice I have to exclude /dev (otherwise it seems to get stuck in a loop like fukawi2 mentioned). This does raise a question though, I notice that it isn't actually accessing the physical disk when this happens, so I wonder, is there a way to tell it to only include events that occur on the disk?

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#1 2010-07-24 06:36:08

[SOLVED] Log hard drive read/writes

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