update: You can actually configure htop (F10) to show disk usage.
the name is iotop – like htop shows you the usage of your cpu and RAM – iotop shows you the usage of input/output devices 🙂 so you can find the process that is consuming all your harddisk resources.
good article: https://www.opsdash.com/blog/disk-monitoring-linux.html
io usage all disks together
dstat
harddisk io usage per harddisk
alternatives: ioping
if you want very general per partition/harddisk stats you can use: iostat.man.txt
yum install sysstat; apt install sysstat; # it makes for a ugly page refresh iostat -yx 1 -x Display extended statistics. -y Omit first report with statistics since system boot, if displaying multiple records at given interval. # it does NO clearscreen but just keeps filling your terminal downwards # only chance: resize window so you only see last output# other examples # Display a continuous device report at 1 second intervals iostat -ymd 1 Device: tps MB_read/s MB_wrtn/s MB_read MB_wrtn sdb 71.00 0.00 0.41 0 0 sda 83.00 0.01 0.41 0 0 md1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0 md0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0 md3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0 md2 82.00 0.01 0.41 0 0 # Display a continuous device report at 2 second intervals iostat -d 2 Device: tps kB_read/s kB_wrtn/s kB_read kB_wrtn sdb 39.73 351.50 1057.28 5549584 16692764 sda 48.40 841.34 1057.28 13283415 16692764 md1 0.01 0.14 0.00 2183 1 md0 0.01 0.14 0.00 2228 0 md3 0.21 0.66 0.55 10441 8672 md2 57.20 1191.53 1051.93 18812313 16608318
harddisk io usage per process
apt-get install iotop # run it iotop # example output Total DISK READ: 0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE: 1149.70 K/s TID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO> COMMAND 191 be/3 root 0.00 B/s 35.43 M/s 0.00 % 45.56 % [jbd2/sda2-8] 190 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 7.72 K/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [flush-8:0] 5399 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 68.18 M/s 0.00 % 0.00 % mailserver /opt/mailserver/mailserver 3 rt/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [migration/0] 4 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [ksoftirqd/0] 5 rt/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [watchdog/0] 6 rt/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [migration/1] 7 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [ksoftirqd/1] 8 rt/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [watchdog/1] 9 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [events/0] 10 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [events/1] 11 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [cpuset] 12 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [khelper] 13 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [netns] 14 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [async/mgr] 15 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [pm] 16 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [sync_supers] 17 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [bdi-default] 18 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kintegrityd/0] 19 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kintegrityd/1] 20 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kblockd/0] 21 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kblockd/1] 22 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kacpid] 23 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kacpi_notify] 24 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kacpi_hotplug] 25 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kseriod] 26 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kondemand/0] 27 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kondemand/1] 7708 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % mailserver /opt/mailserver/mailserver
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