Unlike top
, iotop
requires root privileges (or the NET_ADMIN
capability).
That's inconvenient when you're trying to use it quickly.
This package lets administrators run iotop
easily by making iotop
an alias
for sudo iotop
and adding a sudo rule so that users in the wheel
and
iotop
groups don't need to enter their password to run it.
Security note: iotop allows the user to ionice any thread.
dnf copr enable psimonyi/sudo-iotop
dnf install sudo-iotop