adding status=progress to the dd command i believe will let you know how long it has so you can keep an eye on it in the terminal.
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 11:32 PM Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote: > On 1/25/19 10:58 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I'll give dd a try; but I don't see offhand why > > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdc bs=1M > > should be quicker than what I'm using now, namely > > shred -v -n1 /dev/sdc > > I don't know how it generates the data to overwrite with. Does it use a > lot of CPU? If not, then dd will probably not be faster, you might be > at maximum speed for the drive. However, shred is intended for files, > not partitions. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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