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TL;DR

iotop

Display a table of current I/O usage by processes or threads. More information: https://manned.org/iotop.

  • Start top-like I/O monitor:

sudo iotop

  • Show only processes or threads actually doing I/O:

sudo iotop --only

  • Show I/O usage in non-interactive mode:

sudo iotop --batch

  • Show only I/O usage of processes (default is to show all threads):

sudo iotop --processes

  • Show I/O usage of given PID(s):

sudo iotop --pid=PID

  • Show I/O usage of a given user:

sudo iotop --user=user

  • Show accumulated I/O instead of bandwidth:

sudo iotop --accumulated

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