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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to find out to what file(...) writes goes on a idle system...
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 14:19:08 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141206141908.b5550bb576d0936367d7765e@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k325qbyb.fsf@inbox.lv>

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On Sat, 06 Dec 2014 12:01:16 +0100 Johannes Altmanninger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> meino.cramer@gmx.de writes:
> 
> > In the context of preserving the live of flash media by minimizing
> > the count of unessary writes I want to know which
> > application/daemon/etc is continous writing to that media and which
> > """entity""" (file/pipe/fifo...) is receiving those writes...
> 
> You could use this:
> 
> # echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump
> 
> then every read and write operation on block devices shows up in dmesg
> with the PID, process name and the block id. (This can be a lot of
> lines, so dmesg -c might be useful) I'm not exactly sure how to identify
> which files belong to which block, though.

This depends on filesystem being used. For ext* family debugfs may
be used:
# debugfs /dev/<your_dev>
ncheck inode1 inode2 ...

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-06 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-06  6:56 [gentoo-user] How to find out to what file(...) writes goes on a idle system meino.cramer
2014-12-06 11:01 ` Johannes Altmanninger
2014-12-06 11:19   ` Andrew Savchenko [this message]
2014-12-06 11:27 ` lee
2014-12-06 14:16   ` Frank Steinmetzger
2014-12-06 17:11 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2014-12-06 19:04   ` meino.cramer
2014-12-06 20:14     ` James
2014-12-07  4:05       ` meino.cramer
2014-12-07 11:23         ` Tom H

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