Watch All Files of a Disk? [LWN.net]

Watch All Files of a Disk?

Posted Jul 10, 2005 21:46 UTC (Sun) by miallen (guest, #10195)
Parent article: Looking at inotify again

Is there any way to watch all events for a particular disk? Sometimes my disk rocks periodically and I'd like to know what program is responsible. Can it be done?

to post comments

Watch All Files of a Disk?

Posted Jul 13, 2005 15:46 UTC (Wed) by dw (guest, #12017) [Link] (2 responses)

I haven't used inotify at all, but IIRC this was one of the original "ooh!" points for me when I first saw it: the ability to register one watch and have it affect an entire filesystem subtree. This may or may not be correct. :)

Watch All Files of a Disk?

Posted Aug 10, 2005 22:26 UTC (Wed) by mepr (guest, #4819) [Link]

I think you're referring to IN_ALL_EVENTS, which is mentioned above.
If it is as described above, it is just used for watching for any possible operation on a particular file.

Watch All Files of a Disk?

Posted Sep 29, 2008 12:42 UTC (Mon) by qwe (guest, #54359) [Link]

How you have done this please help me?
I want to monitor the whole directory tree using inotify.
Please help me...