diskdevstat(8)

diskdevstat8

Tool for recording harddisk activity

Usage

diskdevstat [update interval] [total duration] [display histogram]

Overview

diskdevstat is a simple systemtap script to record harddisk activity of processes and display statistics for read/write operations.

update interval

Sets sampling interval in seconds.

total duration

Sets total measurement time in seconds.

display histogram

If this parameter is present, the histogram will be shown at the end of the measurement.

Releases

Unchanged in 5 releases since Debian 10 (Buster).

  1. 10–Arch

Author

Written by Phil Knirsch <[email protected]>.

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/.

From tuned 2.28.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.