top for hard disk usage

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 13:39 -1000, Dave Burns wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In the Old Days (tm) there used to be a utility called iostat, but it
> > seems to have joined the 'eavenly choir eternal.
> 
> No longer in the default install maybe, but not dead yet:
> 
> ~$ yum search iostat
> sysstat.i386 : The sar and iostat system monitoring commands
> fmtools.i386 : Simple Video for Linux radio card programs
> dstat.noarch : Versatile resource statistics tool
> dstat.noarch : Versatile resource statistics tool
> 
> sysstat seems to include iostat. dstat claims to be a superior
> replacement for iostat. Not sure why fmtools shows up here.

dstat seems very cool. It would probably meet the OP's needs.

poc