Linux Disk Statistics Monitoring Tools

• vmstat — Used to Report virtual memory statistics

       vmstat –help For more informations.

• iostat — Report Central Processing Unit (CPU) statistics and input/output statistics for devices and partitions.

        iostat –help For more informations.

• htop   — interactive process viewer

      man top fore more informations.

• tload  — graphic representation of system load average

tload  prints  a  graph of the current system load average to the specified                tty (or  the tty of the tload process if none is specified).

• watch  — execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen

watch runs command repeatedly, displaying its output (the first screenfull).                 This allows you  to  watch the program output change over time.  By                 default, the program is run every 2 seconds; use -n or –inter- val to                  specify a different interval.