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
>>
>

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