Or if you forget that, you send the dd process a USR1 signal and it will print the status. Though if you’re simply initializing from /dev/zero you’re probably

Or if you forget that, you send the dd process a USR1 signal and it will print the status. Though if you’re simply initializing from /dev/zero you’re probably better off with truncate to create a sparse file: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/truncate.1.html https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/truncate.1.html Can’t beat a program that doesn’t even write the bytes.