Use of sfill -l ~; is it actually doing anything?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 21:01:46 +1100, Owen Thomas wrote:
>Is sfill actually doing anything, and if it is, when should I expect
>it to finish?

To see if it is still running, run

$ ps aux | grep sfill

to see if it might use an unusual amount of resources run

$ top

to actually see if it's still writing run

sudo iotop -o

https://askubuntu.com/questions/961558/how-to-know-the-progress-of-sfill-free-space-wiping-process