MY HDD is reading something, but I have no idea what. Is there an app I can use to monitor processes which read/write to HDD and where they read/write?
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Yes, there is:
Press Ctrl+Shift+ESC; Go to "Performance" menu; Go to "Resource Monitor"; It will popup another windows. On this window select "Disk".
This is where you can see which process are using more or less disk I/O operations.
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For linux I dont know the right way, but maybe you can find something using "ps", "top" or even "hdparm".– DiogoJul 12, 2011 at 16:31
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1lsof under Linux will give you reporting on what files are open and to what processess they belong. It is quite extensive and have quite a lot of command options to report different things (such as what processes are listening on what ports). Jul 12, 2011 at 19:08