HDD ->150 IOPS time df -h real 0m0.032s 150 * .032 = 4.8 IOPS But, this is of course very stupid, because the duration of the execution may have been related to CPU usage rather than HDD usage, so unless usage of HDD was 100% for that time, it makes no sense to measure things like that. More @Wikipedia
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