Re: dd statistics output

2014-07-15 Thread Christian Groessler
On 07/15/14 16:37, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 03:14:47PM +0200, Christian Groessler wrote: the final output of 'dd' is in "SI mode" (or how to call it). It uses 10^6 instead of 2^20 for "megabyte". ... Is there a switch to display in "traditional" units Not in dd itself,

Re: dd statistics output

2014-07-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 03:14:47PM +0200, Christian Groessler wrote: > the final output of 'dd' is in "SI mode" (or how to call it). It > uses 10^6 instead of 2^20 for "megabyte". ... > Is there a switch to display in "traditional" units Not in dd itself, afaik. Recent-ish coreutils versions have

dd statistics output

2014-07-15 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, the final output of 'dd' is in "SI mode" (or how to call it). It uses 10^6 instead of 2^20 for "megabyte". Example: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=65536 count=4096 4096+0 records in 4096+0 records out 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 0.0248346 s, 10.8 GB/s $ Is there a switch to displ