Disk statistics since boot?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20050202111738.GA91357 at shagged.org>, Chris Elsworth writes:
>Hello,
>
>I'm sure there must be a way to do this, but I'm having a good deal of
>trouble finding it.
>
>I'd like to be able to see how many transactions have been done and
>how many bytes have been read/written to a given disk since boot. The
>closest I can seem to get is iostat -dI, but that doesn't separate the
>values out into read and write.
>
>I haven't tried snmpd with UCD-DISKIO-MIB yet, but I'd rather not have
>to use that to get the values.
>
>Is this possible, or is it something that might make it into future
>versions of geom classes?

the info is all there, look at the gstat source code and modify
as necessary.

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