Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Petri Rosenström" <petri.rosenstrom@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] which file is currently being written to disk?
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:13:06
Message-Id: AANLkTinxVFi2A2ga1bQ=Vb0zu7iNRtWdbjaKB4kZiiG2@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] which file is currently being written to disk? by Liviu Andronic
1 On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Dear all
3 > Is there some utility (console or otherwise) that could indicate me
4 > NOT the output/input read/write and miscellanea, but simply which
5 > files are currently being written to the disk. Sometimes my browser
6 > (Opera) downloads some big temporary files, and usually I have a difficult
7 > time locating them.
8 >
9 > I've tried
10 > lsof | grep opera
11 >
12 > but the output is messy and not really helpful. Any other ideas?
13 >
14 > Regards
15 > Liviu
16 >
17 >
18 > --
19 > Do you know how to read?
20 > http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm
21 > http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader
22 > Do you know how to write?
23 > http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
24 >
25 >
26
27 Hi,
28
29 I like sys-process/iotop it is quite handy.
30
31 Best regards
32 Petri Rosenström