Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Tool for monitoring what's using the hard drive
Date:	Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:23:37
Message-Id:	`58965d8a0809260819k673f61dcn82b04bb4067b2e5d@mail.gmail.com`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Tool for monitoring what's using the hard drive by Michael Sullivan

1	On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Michael Sullivan
2	<michael@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
3	> Is there a tool similar to `top` that will tell me what's using my hard
4	> drive? My hard drive clicks a lot when I don't think it should, and I'd
5	> really like to know what program is using it. Sometimes it's so bad
6	> that I have to manually power down the machine and restart it...
7
8	In addition to the suggestions from the others, 'lsof' will show you
9	which files are open by what programs at any given time.