May 2017
Beginner
552 pages
28h 47m
English
Content preview from Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
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Monitoring disk activity
A popular naming convention for monitoring tools is to end the name with the 'top' word (the command used to monitor processes). The tool to monitor disk I/O is called iotop.