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Re: Activity Monitor Disk IO/rate

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On 2017-04-16, isw <isw@witzend.com> wrote:
> In article <58f2c118$0$54274$c3e8da3$12bcf670@news.astraweb.com>,
>  JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
>> Trying to confirm that it is a process I suspect that is causing the
>> current disk activity. (spinning diskm make noise :-)
>> 
>> So I got into Activity Monitor, only to find that the only "disk"
>> informatin I can get is total bytes written/read.
>> 
>> Wasn't there in the past an IO rate column so you could see current
>> activity instead of cumulative amount of data read ? And why would this
>> be removed, or where is it hidden ?
>> 
>> (This is with Yosemite). Has activity monitor returned many of the lost
>> columsn we had in Snow Leopard in Sierra ?
>
> There used to be (and maybe still is) a utility called "fseventer" that 
> told a whole lot more than I ever wanted to know about what my disks 
> were up to. Maybe that would help?

No doubt it would show what is doing the access. The built-in fs_usage
tool lets you monitor file system access in real time as well. See the
man page for details. 

If you do a web search for "macos monitor file system events", you'll
find several other utilities that let you monitor file system events.

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JR

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Activity Monitor Disk IO/rate JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-04-15 20:55 -0400
  Re: Activity Monitor Disk IO/rate isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2017-04-15 21:12 -0700
    Re: Activity Monitor Disk IO/rate Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-16 13:58 +0000

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