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At times I've seen & heard the HD on my laptop, a new IBM ThinkPad running RH 8.0 Pro, working like mad for short periods of time...even though no X display apps are running (the usual slew of processes are active in the background though).
I suspect it's the Red Hat update app (updatedb) but....what can a fella use to actively/dynamically monitor disk I/O and associate that thrashing with a process? Just as 'top' displays dynamic cpu and memory usage, I'm looking for dynamic info on disk usage by processes.
the only ones I could think of is top, gtop (for GUI to top), ps (man ps gives a great deal of explanation) and df and du (which will give you hardisks space usage, etc), really with ps you can get away easily just peruse the man page.
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