[mythtv-users] OT: How can I tell what process is writing to my hard drive?

[William Munson]

Bob wrote:
> William Munson wrote:
>   
>> Recently my myth backend system started to have continuous low level 
>> hard drive activity 24 hours a day. Basically a continuous flicker, not 
>> solid on. This is not normal for this system and I want to track down 
>> who is doing all the I/O and hopefully even what file(s). Do any of the 
>> experts here know how to troubleshoot this kind of a problem. Is there a 
>> command that allows monitoring of drive activity like top does for 
>> system activity?
>>
>> System is FC6 based on MythDora but heavily customized. Myth SVN and 
>> system are pretty much up to date.
>>
>> TIA,
>> Bill
>>   
>>     
> cd into / and run a command like,
> find . -cmin -10 | grep -v /proc/ | grep -v /dev/
> It will show you what files have been updated in the last 10 minutes
>
>   


That may be useful to me. Thank you. I have turned off and/or disabled 
every process I can without effect so I am starting to think it may be 
kernel or system logging. Once the system is available again I will try 
out your script.