Thursday, June 5, 2014

Show status of dd command

Run dd with something like

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx

Now in another terminal, do ps ax| grep dd

Look at the process id (first column) of the dd command

Use that process id as input for

sudo kill -SIGUSR1 <pid>

This will force dd to print a status update

http://serverfault.com/questions/4906/using-dd-for-disk-cloning

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