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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: Tracing Filesystem Accesses
From:       Juha Tuuna <juha.tuuna () iki ! fi>
Date:       2011-05-12 10:36:44
Message-ID: 4DCBB83C.6070609 () iki ! fi
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On 12.5.2011 13:19, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I added an SSD in my system and moved the root filesystem to the SSD (which 
> includes now also most of /home in my system). I spin down the regular hard 
> disks and the system is a lot more quiet than before :-)
> 
> Sometimes though something is accessing data on the disk drives, which I do 
> not understand.
> 
> Is there a way to trace all accesses to a directory tree (e.g. /mnt/disk) ?
> 
> Is there another way to find out which data are accessed and if possible by 
> which process?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rainer

You could try installing auditd.
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/auditd

-- 
Juha Tuuna


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