SudoSeth » command http://www.sudoseth.com/blog Ideas, Videos, Projects, and More! Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:07:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hard drive monitoring with sysstat http://www.sudoseth.com/blog/2009/01/hard-drive-monitoring-with-sysstat/ http://www.sudoseth.com/blog/2009/01/hard-drive-monitoring-with-sysstat/#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:25:17 +0000 Seth http://www.sudoseth.com/blog/?p=219 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

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