Hi! On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 09:58:22PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: >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 Missed the original post. What about using stty status ^t before calling dd (e.g. the first variant) and hitting ^t every time you're interested in the status of the transfer? Kind regards, Hannah.
