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If you'd rather spend some of your time than your money on this, you can use the built-in fs_usage terminal command and filter its output (e.g. with grep). Works even with SIP enabled, but will then obviously only return information that SIP doesn't cover.

More info:

  man fs_usage
Example showing pathname-only events but otherwise unfiltered:

  sudo fs_usage -ew -f pathname



I used this incantation in the past to get the hottest file paths

  $ sudo fs_usage -w -t 5 -f filesys | tee fs_usage.log | egrep -o '(/.+?) {3}' | sed -e 's/\/dev\/disk[^ ]+  //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
From https://www.jakobstoeck.de/2017/ramdisk-for-faster-applicati...


I'm going to start calling command line commands "incantations"


I think you might enjoy this poster then: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ifmoua/ive_finally_f...

Have a look at the writings on the books, the pots, etc, in that picture and I think you will see what I mean ;)

You might have to open the picture on a laptop or desktop computer to get a good look at it. On mobile it might be more difficult to see it proper.

It’s my favorite poster that I have ever seen. One of these days I will get myself a nice physical copy of it.


I have a copy of that poster hanging on my wall!!


Even better!


And as (American?) English speakers tend to abbreviate almost everything ("app", "fridge" ...) we might end at "cantos" then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canto ... I'm currently reading Dan Simmons' Hyperion/Endymion again, which might have pushed that into my mind.




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