Disk I/O

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Glances displays the disk I/O throughput. The unit is adapted dynamically.

You can display:

  • bytes per second (default behavior / Bytes/s, KBytes/s, MBytes/s, etc)

  • requests per second (using –diskio-iops option or B hotkey)

There is no alert on this information.

It’s possible to define:

  • a list of disk to show (white list)

  • a list of disks to hide

  • aliases for disk name

under the [diskio] section in the configuration file.

For example, if you want to hide the loopback disks (loop0, loop1, …) and the specific sda5 partition:

[diskio]
hide=sda5,loop.*

or another example:

[diskio]
show=sda.*