iotop

austrianadmin

Hi,

bernies questions, here is the next i tried to solve on my own but....

Chapter 17 Linux Admin- iotop

On Debian 12 the command is not found, also not as root, see screenshot, but a man entry exists.....on Alma Linux 10 as a VM no Problem....how is that i ask, and thank you for the support.

best regards

berni

luisviveropena

Hi Berni,

1.- Debian and AlmaLinux are different operating systems, AlmaLinux is binary compatible with Red Hat. So, on Debian iotiop doesn't come installed by default.

2.- The packages for binaries and man-pages are different on Debian and Debian based distros (in general). For example: you can install the wireshark-doc package -which is the documentation- without installing wireshark, which is the binary.

For example: wireshark-doc is the documentation package for the wireshark tool.

3.- For searching and installing the iotop tool you just can do the following:

luis@debiansrv:~$ apt search iotop
iotop/stable 0.6-42-ga14256a-0.3+b1 amd64
simple top-like I/O monitor

iotop-c/stable 1.30-1 amd64
simple top-like I/O monitor (implemented in C)

luis@debiansrv:~$ sudo apt install iotop
Installing:
iotop

Summary:
Upgrading: 0, Installing: 1, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 14
Download size: 24.0 kB
Space needed: 111 kB / 20.5 GB available

Once installed you can run it using sudo.

Regards,
Luis.

luisviveropena

Hi Berni,

If you do 'su' only, you won't have all the root's environment, including the PATH environment variable. So use 'su -' instead.

Regards,
Luis.

austrianadmin

Hi Luis,

thanks for the hint,Alma and Other OS i have on Boxes(VM) for the course, i tried it but well see the screenshot, i have no idea why the installed iotop doesnot run as su?

thanks again

best regards

berni

austrianadmin

Hi Luis,

su - instead of su.....there i see how much i can learn=)...thanks!!!