I've been looking for a program to easily monitor hard drive access, but what I am finding doesn't seem to do what I (and others) want.

Does Linux have a program to show me what is writing to the hard drive and where, in real-time?

It seems gamin doesn't present the info in a human-usable form and loggedfs needs fuse, which I am not sure is available now.

Something with a gui would be nice, but I am not sure Linux has such a program, like Windows does. Other threads here indicate that there are not many choices and strace needs a path, which I don't know yet.

Check your distributions official or 3rd party repos or build it from source?


You haven't told us what you need to do in detail.

I see hard drive activity when I think there shouldn't be any and I am trying to figure out why or what is causing it. Tracking file activity should pinpoint the cause.

I got wmhdplop to run, but all it seems to do is put up a small graphic display and doesn't return anything useful to me (if I understand its cryptic, non-serious documentation properly).

FUSE is available for Fedora so that should work. Another option could be lm-profiler from the laptop-mode-tools package or iodump.