Re: No disk.partition information

[Mark Goodwin <markgw@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Patrick Aland wrote:
> Is there something special that has to be done to be able to view the
> disk.all.read_bytes and write_bytes (and disk.partition.read_bytes)

The per-partition and {read,write}_bytes metrics are require an
extended version of /proc/partitions. The kernel patch to extend
/proc/partitions with the necessary fields is called the "sard patch",
from Stephen Tweedie. You can get the patch for various kernel versions
from sct's site at ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org:/pub/linux/sct/fs/profiling/

thanks

-- Mark Goodwin
SGI Engineering