From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] which file is currently being written to disk?
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 09:24:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=OvaE-k5=awHhkDqr9yAgsCeHj_bCqq=fCPFsm@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinShRT-UTZ7z53UvW5jtaqAeOgyVJV2n7nhiGF-@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all
> Is there some utility (console or otherwise) that could indicate me
> NOT the output/input read/write and miscellanea, but simply which
> files are currently being written to the disk. Sometimes my browser
> (Opera) downloads some big temporary files, and usually I have a difficult
> time locating them.
>
> I've tried
> lsof | grep opera
>
> but the output is messy and not really helpful. Any other ideas?
Hi Liviu,
I think your best solution is to use inotify-tools. It'll let you set
up watchers on files or directories (optionally recursively) to see
any file activity that happens there in realtime.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-08 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-08 7:48 [gentoo-user] which file is currently being written to disk? Liviu Andronic
2011-03-08 8:10 ` Petri Rosenström
2011-03-08 15:24 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
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