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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} which files are being written to?
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 10:08:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58965d8a0908050808x2566efefn1e4466cdbddf62a7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10908050753r4f7d02b2s564bb1c66a0fabdb@mail.gmail.com>

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



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-05 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
2009-08-06 14:41   ` Grant

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