How to track hard drive seeks?

[servis@purdue.edu]

Is there some program that I can use to monitor what programs are
seeking the hard drive?  Some program, system call, or something is
causing a quick seek to my root partitions hard drive every second or
two.  I don't know what it is and I would like to find out.  My root
partition(everything except /home) is a 3.2G partition(/dev/hda5) on a
new WD 6.4G udma drive.  I have used "hdparm -d1 -c3 -S 241" on the
drive(/dev/hda) but disabling those options doesn't stop it. 
I don't recall this happening on the old drive that the root partition
used to be on, a WD 1.2G eide drive(now /home on /dev/hdb2).

Any pointers would be great,
Thanks,

Brian 
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Mechanical Engineering                              servis@purdue.edu
Purdue University                   http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis


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