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How do I find out what processes are accessing the hard disk in a GNU/Linux-based system?
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Mar 15, 202672728 viewsConfidence Score1%
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I'm looking for the equivalent to top for disk access, so I can tell which process(es) are currently reading and/or writing to disk. I'm currently using Ubuntu, but I imagine there's a standard tool that's available as part of the GNU toolset.
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You got three-fifths of the answer right yourself - the one you want is called iotop. Search for it in the extra repositories, it should be there.
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