See Disk Activity In Python

Question

Is there a python command or library that I can call to see if hard drive is being written to or read from?

Like this C# one Detect if hard disk is being accessed or not

Answer 1

Answered above by Nathan Liang

Monitoring disk read/write activity

The answer is at https://pypi.org/project/psutil/5.2.2/

The call would be based on

import psutil
print(psutil.disk_io_counters(perdisk=False))

giving the output something like this

sdiskio(read_count=719566, write_count=1082197, read_bytes=18626220032, write_bytes=24081764352, read_time=5023392, write_time=63199568, read_merged_count=619166, write_merged_count=812396, busy_time=4523412)

to see busy time is

import psutil
psutil.disk_io_counters(perdisk=False)
print(psutil.disk_io_counters(perdisk=False).busy_time)