Assistance finding out what process is writing to the disk drive

David García Granda dgranda at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 15:22:19 UTC 2009


Hi,

> Thanks for the IOTOP command.  It does not show me much in this case.  I do
> not know what is causing the disk drive light to stay on now. The disk drive
> light works fine until about 5 minutes after boot up.  then the hard drive
> light goes crazy and stays on solid.  I can not really tell if the the hard
> drive is really in use but according to IOTOP it is not being used.

Did you try lsof?




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