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tbuitenh

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Registered: 2004-03-08

Posts: 55

monitoring and preventing disk accesses

Is there an easy way to find out which programs are accessing the disk?

Just curious, I already found out by elimination what was making my nice silent laptop an annoying krr-krr-krr thing keeping me from concentrating: the enlightenment clock module. Weird but true.

To prevent disk accesses as much as reasonable, I might mount /home/me on a tmpfs . Any ideas about how to do that in a reasonably safe way (ie saving to disk every hour and at logout)? And what about unionfs? Does anyone here use it for anything? Would it be useful for this?

A silence loving geek

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lanrat

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From: Poland

Registered: 2003-10-28

Posts: 1,274

Re: monitoring and preventing disk accesses

Is there an easy way to find out which programs are accessing the disk?

Try lsof (console) and/or glsof (gui) package.

tbuitenh

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Registered: 2004-03-08

Posts: 55

Re: monitoring and preventing disk accesses

I still have to figure out how to find the last accesses with that, but it helps. Thanks!

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