what is accessing my disk?

[djevlen]

hi

Something is bringing my storage disk drives out of standby and want to find out what it is. I cant use tools like Iotop because its in real time and if the process im looking for is accessing the disk only once every 2 or 3 hours (it is exactly what is happening) i will for sure miss it.

The best would be to log ALL access/read/write activity to some text file or so and i must be able to set the program to monitor specific disk. not all disks.

Any suggestions ?

[Bufeu]

iotop?
http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/iotop/

[djevlen]

iotop?
http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/iotop/

it says no such option ::


iotop -m /media/lol
iotop: error: no such option: -m

[HermanAB]

Syslog, cron...

Have a look in /etc/cron.hourly and in the root crontab.