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.
Monitoring disk activity
Getting ready
The iotop application doesn't come preinstalled with most Linux distributions, you will have to install it using your package manager. The iotop application requires root privileges, so you'll need to run it as sudo or root user.
How to do it...
The iotop application can either perform continuous monitoring or generate reports for a fixed period:
- For continuous monitoring, use the command...
