top for hard disk usage

[Konstantin Svist]

David Timms wrote:
> What tool can tell me why my hard disk light is essentially on, 
> performing continuous access ?
>
> top doesn't seem to show the culprit since it mustn't use enough CPU.
>
> Fedora 9 i386 if it matters.
>
> Also, is there similar for network ?
>
> DaveT.
>

top groups it into "0.0%wa" - this is total CPU percentage used for disk IO

There's a utility called iotop - should be in the repos (at least, it 
was for F8)


HTH