how to tell which process is accessing my disk?
Scott Elcomb
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Fri Aug 29 20:57:02 UTC 2008
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Matt Price <matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> 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.
In addition to the other tools listed there's also 'fuser'
>From the man page:
FUSER(1) User Commands FUSER(1)
NAME
fuser - identify processes using files or sockets
SYNOPSIS
fuser [-a|-s|-c] [-4|-6] [-n space ] [-k [-i] [-signal ]
] [-muvf] name ...
fuser -l
fuser -V
DESCRIPTION
fuser displays the PIDs of processes using the specified
files or file systems. ...
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