Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:00:32 +0000 From: David Jenkins <david.jenkins@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tracing Disk Activity Message-ID: <9395922d04112106002061980d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20041121093347.GA861@gicco.homeip.net> References: <20041121093347.GA861@gicco.homeip.net>
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On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:33:47 +0100, Hanspeter Roth <hampi@rootshell.be> wrote: > Hello, > > I have set an idle timeout for the hard-disk. But when there is no > user activity there are frequent disk accesses. > How can one trace disk access? > I'd like to know the kind of access and on which files/directories/ > nodes. I'd like to log on the console or on a memory disk file. There may be a much better way of doing this but have a look at fstat(1). Hope this helps. David
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