Re: Assistance finding out what process is writing to the disk drive

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On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:44 PM, John Nissley <jnissley@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a Fedora 11 server running 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.x86_64.  I recently
> noticed that my hard drive light is on constantly and was wondering how I
> can determine what is accessing the hard disk so much.  After boot the hard
> disk is acting normally for a few minutes to a few hours and then the hard
> drive light is lit up constantly.
>
> I have tried ps -ef to see if there was anything running that I do not know
> about and there is not.  Is there any way for me to determine which process
> is consistently using the hard disk?

I use iotop but there is probably a way to do it without installing
anything new...

Richard

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