[CentOS] Finding wich files a writen to

John Doe jdmls at yahoo.com
Mon May 9 12:05:30 UTC 2011


From: Nicolas Ross <rossnick-lists at cybercat.ca>

> With iostat, I find that it's almost a write i/o problem. How  can I find to 
> which files the OS writes ? On OSX boxes, there is a utility  called fs_usage 
> that can reports any disk activity for a particular process  or all 
> processes. Is there any utility like this on Centos ?
> iotop  can points me to wich process, but that doesn't points me to what 
> files are  the culprits... 

Maybe the following would give some info...?
  lsof | grep "[0-9]w " | grep " /"

JD



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