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Tool to connect to a file descriptor for I/O

I'm looking for a unix tool which can connect me to a specific file descriptor and do some I/O operations on it, assuming that the user permissions are valid. What could I look to use?
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Monitor disk I/O used by specific command

I know that there are various tools for monitoring disk I/O, but I am wondering specifically if there is something equivalent to time for disk usage? For example, I am benchmarking a specific command ...
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iotop complains "CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT not enabled in kernel" only for specific process

I'm trying to use iotop to determine whether the CPUs are waiting on I/O at any point for a specific program called bwa (it's a next-generation sequence alignment program). If I start iotop without ...
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Being 'nice' with I/O: limiting a processes I/O resources in *nix

I'm working on a big shared Ubuntu server and am annoying my colleagues. One of my processes is making a lot of inserts into a MySQL database and it's bogging the whole server down. MySQL is not ...
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How to get I/O usage by process in Unix? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Linux: Is there something similar to "top" for I/O? I am trying to do some CPU intensive operation on a Linux machine and it is showing very high load. I want to ...
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