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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] which file is currently being written to disk?
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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.