On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Bruce Badger wrote: > I'm running a Woody system (installed from the SLUG/Debian CD, needless > to say :-) ), and there is something going on that is causing the disk > to be constantly accessed. It's like a constant tapping sound as the > disk is being hit. > > How can I find out what process is accessing the disk? Is there a cool > monitor out there that I can use to find out?
lsof will list which files are currently open, and which process is using them. (Handy when you are trying to unmount partitions.) Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
