via ipkg available (and flawlessly working on standard ubuntu distributions) is the small python script iotop (http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop), which looks much like top, but displays the i/o operations for each process, like the following extract shows:
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PID USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO> COMMAND
2285 root 0 B/s 164.80 K/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kjournald]
1931 userxyz 1.04 M/s 0 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % find . -name *xyz*
9198 root 0 B/s 0.80 K/s 0.00 % 0.00 % java -Djava.util.logging.manager...
Sincerely,
Martin