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What's accessing my hard drive?
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Is there a utility that can tell me which process is accessing my hard drive? My drive is clicking like mad at the moment yet I'm just browsing the web and top doesn't show anything using a lot of CPU.
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CPU doesn't need to be going nuts to cause a lot of HD access - you just need to have run out of RAM and be paging in/out.
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Try this in terminal, sudo fs_usage and you will see what processes are accessing the file system.
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Originally posted by SMacTech:
Try this in terminal, sudo fs_usage and you will see what processes are accessing the file system.
Thanks! That worked well enough - turns out it was MSN Messenger, sigh - but is there a utility that makes that data more readable, as top does for CPU usage?
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You can try using some of the options outlined in man fs_usage in terminal.
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