Linux verify disk activities

 

 

$ sudo apt-get install iotop

$ sudo iotop -a
$ sudo iotop -oPa -d 2  #more specific
 

$ iostat  #activity by sda, sdb, etc.
 

jbd2 is a kernel thread that updates the filesystem journal.

 

References:

[1] Reduce firefox disk access https://gist.github.com/gagarine/5cf8f861abe0dd035b7af19e4f691cd8

[2] Monitoring disk activity(htop) https://askubuntu.com/questions/276669/how-to-monitor-disk-activity