Re: Curious about other methods to detect hard drive access

To: "Stackpole, Chris" <CStackpole@barbnet.com>
Cc: debian users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Curious about other methods to detect hard drive access
From: David Ayers <ayers@fsfe.org>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:45:45 +0200
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Am Mittwoch, den 06.08.2008, 10:36 -0500 schrieb Stackpole, Chris:
> The thing that got me thinking was, if this was a process generating
> this disk I/O, or someone being malicious in generating this disk I/O, I
> would not have known which file was actually being accessed as I only
> found out the process. Is that possible? I am sure that Samba can be
> configured to log the information, but what about other processes? Is
> there a good way to tell what process/file is accessing the disk?

lsof ?

Cheers,
David

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