[SOLVED] see VM/CT disk usage/load

proximity

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How can I see which device is using the disk? It looks like one is using quite some disk and I would like to know which one it is. On proxmox host udisksd takes quite some load:

752 root 20 0 8550888 7.8g 10068 R 44.0 26.5 3282:00 udisksd
 
Code:
lsblk
lists block devices and their sizes. Is it that what you mean?
 
iostat ?
```
apt install sysstat
iostat -m -x
Device r/s w/s rMB/s wMB/s rrqm/s wrqm/s %rrqm %wrqm r_await w_await aqu-sz rareq-sz wareq-sz svctm %util
sda 3.00 56.00 0.00 0.70 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.17 0.08 0.00 0.00 12.82 0.17 1.00
sdb 3.50 58.00 0.02 0.70 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.14 0.07 0.00 6.29 12.38 0.20 1.20
sdc 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
```
 
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Thx. that would have helped I guess but I already ended up killing the process. Didn't have the issue again thus far.
 

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