Assistance finding out what process is writing to the disk drive

Aioanei Rares schaiba at gmail.com
Thu Dec 3 14:51:41 UTC 2009


On 12/03/2009 04:30 PM, John Nissley wrote:
> 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.
>
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Try powertop.




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