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`pv` (pipeviewer) is usually very useful for tracking progress. dd if=/dev/zero count=10 bs=1M | pv > file.bin The other way to see progress on `dd` is to iss
by itchyouch 11y ago
`pv` (pipeviewer) is usually very useful for tracking progress.
dd if=/dev/zero count=10 bs=1M | pv > file.bin
The other way to see progress on `dd` is to issue a signal 3 (USR1, iirc) to the dd process. kill -3 <dd pid>
- jeffcox 11y agoThe aptly named "Progress" also works on dd. https://github.com/Xfennec/progress https://github.com/Xfennec/progress
- malcolmputer 11y ago> The other way to see progress on `dd` is to issue a signal 3 (USR1, iirc) to the dd process. kill -3 <dd pid> Be careful with this on some distributions and compilations of DD. Purely anecdotal evidence, but in college I had a friend imaging a very large (5400RPM) drive and about 10 hours into the process he lamented that he wished he could see how far along it was. I popped open a terminal, ps -A |grep dd, kill -USR1 $PID, and it just exited. He was rather pissed that I lost him 10 hours.