On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all > Is there some utility (console or otherwise) that could indicate me > NOT the output/input read/write and miscellanea, but simply which > files are currently being written to the disk. Sometimes my browser > (Opera) downloads some big temporary files, and usually I have a difficult > time locating them. > > I've tried > lsof | grep opera > > but the output is messy and not really helpful. Any other ideas?
Hi Liviu, I think your best solution is to use inotify-tools. It'll let you set up watchers on files or directories (optionally recursively) to see any file activity that happens there in realtime.
