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Subject: Re: who is writing to disk
To: zhiruo@cc.gatech.edu (Zhiruo Cao)
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 13:50:36 +0000 (GMT)
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> 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?

Monitoring tool - none that I know of. FInd can do a search and find all very
new files.

Most likely it's a combination of cruddy CD-ROM drives and magicdev. See
if /var/log/messages has an ever growing rant from the cdrom drive


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