On 2009-05-03, David <dunnoseriou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le dimanche 03 mai 2009 C 00:52 -0400, Daniel Ouellet a C)crit :
>
> [...]
>> Then I did the image of the drive from the external broken one to the
>> new clean internal one.
>>
>> dd if=/dev/rsd1c of=/dev/rwd0c bs=1m
>>
>> And let that go. Took for ever and I had no clue of progress.
>
>
> You can use Pipe Viewer (sysutils/pv) to get progress information.
>
>
it's slower that way. reading from disk and outputting to /dev/null:
- inside one dd process (dd if=foo of=bar)
0m32.33s real 0m0.24s user 0m9.42s system
- dd if=foo | dd of=bar
0m39.27s real 0m0.55s user 0m14.96s system
- dd if=foo | pv | dd of=bar
0m54.14s real 0m1.86s user 0m23.98s system
