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How can I see which process does the most writes on a specific partition?

Unix & Linux Asked on October 31, 2021

I am using Debian Buster and would like to find out which process does the most writes on a specific partition, just like iotop but limited to a single block device?

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iotop cannot do that because it reads processes IO counters (/proc/PID/io) which are common for all block devices, including virtual filesystems like tmpfs.

What you'll need to do is block I/O tracing:

As far as I know there are no ready solutions for that.

Answered by Artem S. Tashkinov on October 31, 2021

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