Howto see files that are being written to hd......

finnzi · 03-15-2004, 05:10 AM

Howdy all

I am woundering if there is a util that show me files that are being written to hd ...(tryed atop and lsof, both show alot more then i want) ....i just want to know what users are writing files to HD, i am trying to debug box i have here, but i cant seem to be able to just see files that are written to hd.....

If anyone knows please let me know...this load is making me craazzzyyy!

- Finnzi

soloist · 03-15-2004, 06:15 AM

If alof or other tools give too much info, perhaps grep could help?
Anything command that outputs text to the console (stdout) can be "grepped" to select only output lines that contain a specified word. The format is usually

commandName | grep scanWord

See man grep for more.

Having said that, this will only solve your problem if
1. alof outputs text to stdout (which I don't know)
2. the stuff you're interested in can be separated from the other stuff by a keyword

Good Luck

soloist

finnzi · 03-15-2004, 09:54 AM

Hi

I´ve already thought about using grep yes, but lsof is not giving me enought information about writings, sure, it lists open files, but i really only want the files that are being written.....im not sure this is possible, but hopefully it is :P....I´ve a 4x webservers that read from 1 box with the material the other 4 serve...and the box that supplys the material is kindah under alot of writing and when it starts writing it starts to load up due to blocked processes.....:O

- Finnzi