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From: Zhiruo Cao <zhiruo@cc.gatech.edu>
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Subject: who is writing to disk
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Hello,

I found a process constantly writing to disk when I run gnome as desktop 
and while the whole system is idle.  I don't find anything in the log
file, and I don't see anything updated in my home dir or in /tmp.  Does it
sound like bdflush is writing?  But I don't hear the disk access when I
am not running gnome.  

My question then is, is there a (monitoring) tool that can tell me who is
writing to disk?  Or how I configure the kernel to know that?

Thanks!

Joe

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