[gentoo-user] which file is currently being written to disk?

[gentoo-user] which file is currently being written to disk?

[Liviu Andronic]

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?

Regards
Liviu


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

[Petri Rosenström]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:48 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?
>
> Regards
> Liviu
>
>
> --
> Do you know how to read?
> http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm
> http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader
> Do you know how to write?
> http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
>
>

Hi,

I like sys-process/iotop it is quite handy.

Best regards
Petri Rosenström

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

[Paul Hartman]

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.