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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tool for monitoring what's using the hard drive
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Michael Sullivan
<michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> Is there a tool similar to `top` that will tell me what's using my hard
> drive?  My hard drive clicks a lot when I don't think it should, and I'd
> really like to know what program is using it.  Sometimes it's so bad
> that I have to manually power down the machine and restart it...

In addition to the suggestions from the others, 'lsof' will show you
which files are open by what programs at any given time.