[ale] What is using the disk??

[James P. Kinney III]

Check the log files. There may be a process that is not closing and it
is writing to the /var/log/messages file.



On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 08:45, Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> I have redhat 8.0, ext3.  The "write/read" light on the box has been illuminated for days.  I don't hear the usual rattle of a hard drive being read or written to.  How do I find out what process is using the disk?  I tried to umount it but the "device is busy".
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> John
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