What: /sys/block//stat Date: February 2008 Contact: Jerome Marchand Description: The /sys/block//stat files displays the I/O statistics of disk . They contain 11 fields: 1 - reads completed succesfully 2 - reads merged 3 - sectors read 4 - time spent reading (ms) 5 - writes completed 6 - writes merged 7 - sectors written 8 - time spent writing (ms) 9 - I/Os currently in progress 10 - time spent doing I/Os (ms) 11 - weighted time spent doing I/Os (ms) For more details refer Documentation/iostats.txt What: /sys/block///stat Date: February 2008 Contact: Jerome Marchand Description: The /sys/block///stat files display the I/O statistics of partition . The format is the same as the above-written /sys/block//stat format.