if you have access to packages, you could "pkg_add pv" and:
"dd if=/dev/random | pv | dd of=/dev/rsdXc bs=1m" It will show you in real time how much random data has been written to disk. -Luke On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:43 AM Luke Small <[email protected]> wrote: > I mean: "dd if=/dev/random | pv | dd of=/dev/rsdXc bs=1m" > > -Luke > > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:41 AM Luke Small <[email protected]> wrote: > >> if you have access to packages, you could "pkg_add pv" >> >> and: >> >> "dd if=/dev/random | pv | of=/dev/rsdXc bs=1m" >> >> It will show you in real time how much random >> >> data has been written to disk. >> >> -Luke >> >

