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monitoring status of dd



You can also use dc3dd - http://dc3dd.sourceforge.net/ which gives you a
progress monitor.

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Scott Ehrlich <srehrlich-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I had been searching for a way to monitor the status of a dd copy, and
> finally did:
>
> http://linuxcommando.blogspot.com/2008/06/show-progress-during-dd-copy.html
>
> ps auwx|grep dd
>
> kill -USR1 pid
>
> watch -n 10 kil -USR1 pid
>
> Using it now, and am really happy to finally see the status of its
> progress.
>
> Scott
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