how to tell which process is accessing my disk?

William O'Higgins Witteman william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Wed Aug 27 01:55:00 UTC 2008


On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 08:39:17PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:

>i have a vague feeling i've sent this query out before, but i can't find
>a record of it.  is there a tool that lets me see what process is
>accessing the disk?  i just had a half-hour period where i couldn't use
>my computer at ll because trackerd was monopolizing the disk.  i'd like
>to be able to fire up a command-line tool that will tell me what's going
>on in such cases.  

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but lsof (list open
files) might tell you something.
-- 

yours,

William

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