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* [gentoo-user] {OT} which files are being written to?
@ 2009-08-05 14:53 Grant
  2009-08-05 15:03 ` Albert Hopkins
  2009-08-05 15:08 ` Paul Hartman
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Grant @ 2009-08-05 14:53 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Gentoo mailing list

Is there a tool that will tell me which files are being written to on
my system at any given time?

- Grant



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* Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} which files are being written to?
  2009-08-05 14:53 [gentoo-user] {OT} which files are being written to? Grant
@ 2009-08-05 15:03 ` Albert Hopkins
  2009-08-05 15:08 ` Paul Hartman
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Albert Hopkins @ 2009-08-05 15:03 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 07:53 -0700, Grant wrote:
> Is there a tool that will tell me which files are being written to on
> my system at any given time?


sys-process/audit






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* Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} which files are being written to?
  2009-08-05 14:53 [gentoo-user] {OT} which files are being written to? Grant
  2009-08-05 15:03 ` Albert Hopkins
@ 2009-08-05 15:08 ` Paul Hartman
  2009-08-06 14:41   ` Grant
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Paul Hartman @ 2009-08-05 15:08 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Grant<emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a tool that will tell me which files are being written to on
> my system at any given time?

lsof shows files that are open for any reason

systemtap supposed can show everything happening (never tried it):
http://sourceware.org/systemtap/

Also this post on Ububtu forum has a more home-made method:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2415252#post2415252



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* Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} which files are being written to?
  2009-08-05 15:08 ` Paul Hartman
@ 2009-08-06 14:41   ` Grant
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Grant @ 2009-08-06 14:41 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

>> Is there a tool that will tell me which files are being written to on
>> my system at any given time?
>
> lsof shows files that are open for any reason
>
> systemtap supposed can show everything happening (never tried it):
> http://sourceware.org/systemtap/
>
> Also this post on Ububtu forum has a more home-made method:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2415252#post2415252

Thanks guys.

- Grant



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