Sorry but all those pipes are going to slow the transfer needlessly. To see
the progress of a running dd process, just send it SIGINFO :
dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1M & ddpid=$!
kill -USR1 $ddpid
Aaron Cossey
aaron.cos...@gmail.com
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Tyler J. Wagner <ty...@tolaris.com> wrote:
> On 2013-07-23 10:02, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> > dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1M
>
> For those not familiar with dd, it doesn't display progress when working.
> And dd'ing a 2 TB drive can take a long time. If you want progress, use
> this:
>
> dd dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M | pv | dd of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1M
>
> pv is great.
>
> Tyler
>
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