disk activity monitoring / util 

Newsgroups:  gmane.linux.debian.user
Date:        Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:44:34 +0800
> I've used things like top and free, but this does not give any
> information about what the disks are doing.   Any help would be great.
$ apt-cache search sysstat
isag - Interactive System Activity Grapher for sysstat
sysstat - sar, iostat and mpstat - system performance tools for Linux

John