Windows Filemon equivalent for freebsd

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Thu May 11 16:32:24 PDT 2006


Dan Nelson wrote:

>In the last episode (May 11), Ian Lord said:
>  
>
>>Just a quick question, do you know a port that will do about the same
>>thing as filemon for windows ?
>>
>>Basically, just a command line tool to list all access to disk showing
>>
>>        1- File being access
>>        2- Success of failure
>>        3- Process accessing the file
>>    
>>
>
>"ktrace -di -p0 -ti" is the closest we have at the moment, but that
>only logs the I/O actions themselves, not the syscalls generating the
>I/O.  Removing the "-ti" flag will tell ktrace to log all I/O and all
>syscall activity, which may be information overload.  If you're only
>interested in a single process, take a look at the truss command. 
>If/when the port of Solaris' dtrace is completed, it will be able to do
>exactly what you want and more.
>
>  
>
Not sure about requirement #2, but the lsof port does similar things and 
I think accomplishes requirements #1 and #3 according to what you want.
-Garrett


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