Howto Install iotop on Ubuntu, CentOS & Fedora




Iotop is a Python program with a top like UI used to show of behalf of which process is the I/O going on
Ubuntu

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Edit source list & uncomment universe repo.
e.g

 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty universe
 deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty universe
 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty-updates universe
 deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty-updates universe
 deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty-security universe
 deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty-security universe
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install iotop

CenOS
#for centos 5

rpm -ivh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm


#for centos 6

rpm -ivh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpmm
yum install iotop -y

Fedora

sudo yum install iotop -y

check below snap for details.


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