writes to unmounted partitions

Prashant Shah pshah.mumbai at gmail.com
Sun Nov 18 23:54:08 EST 2012


Hi,

> IIRC, blktrace is designed to monitor such I/O events at the block
> level. Try it :)

Ok I will try that. I was thinking about it and something that made it
clear to me is : "Since its writing to the actual disk through
/dev/sdaX the kernel knows about it, since its the one that is
translating the writes from the /dev/sdaX file to the actual disk"

Regards.



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