Inspect open files
# define PID
# lsof is a command meaning "list open files"
lsof -p $PID
# run the once per second
watch -n 1 lsof -p $PID
# iotop watches I/O usage information output by the Linux kernel
# (requires 2.6.20 or later) and displays a table of current I/O usage
# by processes or threads on the system.
sudo iotop