Re: Michael - Re: iotop - or, checking what is accessing a drive
On 2019-03-22, deb <deb@rangingthoughts.org> wrote:
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>> Depending on what's on the disk, it might be more useful to just use
>> lsof to see what files are open and try to understand what those might
>> be doing.
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> Thank you Michael.
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> I'll build up a list of these recommendations for here.
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I believe you said that the external USB drive's LED remains on, even
after unmounting, and that indicates to you that there's activity on the
drive. I've always labored under the idea that a *flashing* light
indicated activity and a steady one an idle state.
Now it occurs to me that these signal indications may depend on the make
and model of the drive itself.
What should be the behavior of the LED on your drive when the drive is
unmounted and/or inactive?
(This is probably a waste of everybody's time.)
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and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched--love for instance--
we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.” - Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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