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How do I tell how much load a particular process is contributing to each of several available volumes/mounts? It seems that dstat only shows aggregate stats across all processes per disk, and iotop only shows aggregates stats across all disks per process.

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  • It's kinda bad to ask the same question twice. You might have edited the title of the original note. – mdpc Apr 11 '13 at 05:32
  • @mdpc I specifically was asking two distinct questions. I can try to make them more clearly distinguished? To other readers, this is what is being referring to: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/72027/iotop-but-for-particular-disk. – Yang Apr 11 '13 at 07:39
  • The Linux kernel does not track this information. Solaris on the other hand does, and this information is available via dtrace – Johan Apr 11 '13 at 13:12

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I don't know if this is still relevant, but I use iostat to show I/O statistics for individual devices and partitions. For example, in order to monitor a running cpio task with process id 32731 is use the following command:

iostat -xd /proc/32731 -p sda,sdb,sdc,sdd 1
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You can use htop. It is a better process monitoring tool that top.

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