Is there a Linux command to monitor read and writes over a period of time? with what files were accessed and how much data was written.
iotop maybe?
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They won't do exactly what you want but will get you partway there
For read/write ops or disk usage over time, I would usually use a monitoring system like Prometheus and Grafana.
When you start talking about what specific files are accessed and when, that's usually up to an intrusion detection system (or IDS). I don't have good recommendations for that unfortunately.
sysdig can monitor and display file IO usage.
See this page for some examples: https://github.com/draios/sysdig/wiki/Sysdig%20Examples#disk-io
Something like iotop -Pao (real-time) or iotop -obd (batch) ought to do the job. I don't know if it includes writes to non-physical devices like tmpfs.
Some other commands you might find interesting: iosnoop, fatrace, pidstat, blktrace.