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Alert when a partition is read/written

My hard disk sometimes makes unexpected noise, indicating activity. By eyeballing iotop I believe this process is responsible: mount.ntfs /dev/sda2 /storage -o rw,umask=007,gid=46 however the ...
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How to determine the duration for which a file was accessed/modified a program?

I would like to measure the speed of encryption performed by a utility on a Windows 10 box. Since there are no other ways in the utility itself to do this, I would like to know if I can determine how ...
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What does "% IO" mean in iotop?

I'm currently reading data from RAID and single hdd and monitoring speed with iotop. Numbers go like this: RAID: 380MB/s 23% IO HDD: 80MB/s 76% IO How to interpret IO %?
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How to monitor which files lots of data is being written to on Linux?

I can monitor I/O with tools such as iotop. It allows me to identify which processes do how much I/O. Now I'd like to know which files those processes write all that data to. How would I do that? E....
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Find which process uses on average the most CPU, Memory and IO on Windows 7

I'd like a way to monitor processes on Windows 7 for average CPU, Memory and IO since last boot. I would love it if it was a nice UI friendly tool that could sort processes by Average CPU, Average ...
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How to to measure and monitor I/O performance

We have a linux cluster with worker nodes sharing a common remote file system. We want to optimize the I/O, in particular when the workers read from the remote fs. The starting point is to measure ...
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How do you monitor I/O on individual devices in windows?

Can anyone tell me if there's a handy little utility out there that will monitor and display the I/O charts for individual drives on windows? On linux Gkrellm is great for this.
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