how to tell which process is accessing my disk?

[Matt Price]

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 08:29 -0400, Andrew Overholt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> * Matt Price <matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> [2008-08-26 20:47]:
> > 
> > is there a tool that lets me see what process is accessing the disk?
> 
> Try iotop.
> 
thanks to andrew and lennart for this!  it seems great, just what i
needed.  fyi, for the other benighted ubuntu users out there, there is a
ppa repo for iotop:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ubuntu hardy main

it won't be in main till intrepid comes out.

matt



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