[mythtv-users] OT: How can I tell what process is writing to my hard drive?

Bob spam at homeurl.co.uk
Fri Jul 20 12:07:04 UTC 2007


William Munson wrote:
> Recently my myth backend system started to have continuous low level 
> hard drive activity 24 hours a day. Basically a continuous flicker, not 
> solid on. This is not normal for this system and I want to track down 
> who is doing all the I/O and hopefully even what file(s). Do any of the 
> experts here know how to troubleshoot this kind of a problem. Is there a 
> command that allows monitoring of drive activity like top does for 
> system activity?
>
> System is FC6 based on MythDora but heavily customized. Myth SVN and 
> system are pretty much up to date.
>
> TIA,
> Bill
>   
cd into / and run a command like,
find . -cmin -10 | grep -v /proc/ | grep -v /dev/
It will show you what files have been updated in the last 10 minutes

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