Hard drive monitoring with sysstat
January 15th, 2009
I was wondering if there was a way to monitor hard drive use in a terminal the same way it is possible to monitor CPU and RAM usage with top. After a quick search I found a post on the OC Forums that suggests install sysstat, which does exactly what I want. Installation is simple:
sudo apt-get install sysstat
Then run the utility with:
iostat
You can also set it to automatically refresh by putting the number of seconds to refresh in after the command. For example, to refresh every five seconds, type:
iostat 5