[mythtv-users] Hard disk access

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Mon Dec 12 19:32:22 EST 2005


Beat me to it. I was just going to suggest that.
Might be easier on the eyes to run a lsof -p (probably in your /usr/ 
sbin dir) on each PID you've got running to see exactly what files it  
has open.

On Dec 12, 2005, at 5:45 PM, Andrew Wilson wrote:

> You can track which process is reading/writing the disk by doing:
>
>  echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump
>
> Then use 'dmesg' to tell you process is using the disk. Turn off
> tracking again with
>
>  echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump
>
> Hope this helps
> Andrew
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