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What commands can I use to monitor disk health in Linux?

Asked by andrew (16562points) March 21st, 2008

I’m looking for commands that will give me IO level blocking, caching, speed, etc: anything that will give me the basic answer of, “Is my bottleneck happening on my disk?”

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well, somethings, whats distro are you running? how big is your HDD, speed, Sata or IDE? And when does it bottleneck? during a certain app, or the general system its self?

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andrew's avatar

Ubuntu. I just need general monitoring commands.

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iceblu's avatar

Check here for commands,
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here for a system monitor app, you can easly get it in the repositories.

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top.

iostat, memstat, procstat.

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