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Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

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	Hi.

On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 10:10:58PM +0200, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Apr/06/2019, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone confirm that, and, if so, suggest any way of measuring how much is 
> > written to a given file in a given time period (e.g., per day)?
> > 
> > I guess at a very deep level (I mean like at the level of the disk firmware or 
> > driver level), this may differ between an SSD and an HDD -- if you have any 
> > insight into that, I'd appreciate that.
> 
> In my SSDs I have:
> /sys/fs/ext4/dm-0/lifetime_write_kbytes
> 
> I'm not sure if this is specific for SSD?

No, it's not. It's filesystem-specific though.
Meaning - you have to use ext4 to see this attribute, but the device
where the ext4 filesystem resides does not matter.

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Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-04-06 19:40 +0200
  Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to  disk when I repeatedly save a file "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2019-04-06 22:40 +0200
  Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-04-06 23:50 +0200
    Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to  disk when I repeatedly save a file Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-04-07 00:40 +0200
    Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written  to disk when I repeatedly save a file Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-04-07 11:50 +0200
      Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written  to disk when I repeatedly save a file Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-04-07 12:00 +0200
      Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-04-07 15:10 +0200
    Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-04-07 14:20 +0200
      Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written  to disk when I repeatedly save a file Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2019-04-07 15:00 +0200
      Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-04-07 18:30 +0200
  Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written  to disk when I repeatedly save a file Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-04-07 03:30 +0200
    Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-04-07 15:00 +0200
  Re: [OFF-LIST] Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-04-07 14:00 +0200
  Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written  to disk when I repeatedly save a file Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.cat> - 2019-04-07 22:30 +0200
    Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written  to disk when I repeatedly save a file Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-04-07 22:30 +0200
      Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written  to disk when I repeatedly save a file Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-04-08 09:50 +0200
        Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-04-08 14:50 +0200
          Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-04-08 15:40 +0200
          Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written  to disk when I repeatedly save a file Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-04-08 15:40 +0200
            Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-04-08 15:50 +0200
              Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written  to disk when I repeatedly save a file Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-04-08 16:20 +0200
                Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-04-08 17:00 +0200
                Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-04-08 18:20 +0200
                Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written  to disk when I repeatedly save a file Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-04-08 19:00 +0200
                Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to  disk when I repeatedly save a file "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2019-04-08 19:20 +0200
            Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written  to disk when I repeatedly save a file Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-04-12 11:20 +0200
              Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written  to disk when I repeatedly save a file Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-04-12 14:10 +0200
                Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-04-12 19:20 +0200
                Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written  to disk when I repeatedly save a file Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-04-12 20:50 +0200
                Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to  disk when I repeatedly save a file "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2019-04-12 22:50 +0200
          Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to  disk when I repeatedly save a file "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2019-04-08 15:50 +0200
            Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-04-08 18:00 +0200
      Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-04-08 14:40 +0200
        Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to  disk when I repeatedly save a file David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2019-04-08 16:40 +0200

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