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#1 2008-03-13 00:53:47

phabulosa
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From: Mountain View, CA
Registered: 2007-10-17
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Anyway to monitor which program is using the hard drive?

I recently noticed that my hard drive keeps running.
I knew that I can use some tool to monitor which program (process) is using CPU resources.
Is there any tool to monitor which program is reading/writing hard drive all the time?

thanks

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#2 2008-03-13 01:30:56

brebs
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Registered: 2007-04-03
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Re: Anyway to monitor which program is using the hard drive?

atop, but it needs kernel patches to monitor disk activity per-process.

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#3 2008-03-13 03:05:45

vogt
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From: Toronto, Canada
Registered: 2006-11-25
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Re: Anyway to monitor which program is using the hard drive?

More crudely (and without any kernel patches), you can get a general idea of what could be being written to (at that time) with lsof.

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