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| From | Curt <curty@free.fr> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Trying to understand man page for dd |
| Date | 2017-06-03 14:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <tOfSO-6Ag-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <tM51v-1tL-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <tM5bb-1NQ-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <tNGil-8hJ-9@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | Unorganized |
On 2017-06-01, Ulf Volmer <u.volmer@u-v.de> wrote: > On 05/28/2017 02:05 PM, JPlews wrote: > >>>> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$! >>>> $ kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid > >> have a look at status=progress > > This option does not exist in debian stable. Would 'pv' help? dd if=/dev/zero | pv | of=/dev/null Apparently if you know the approximate 'size' it will give you will an ETA. dd if=/dev/sdb | pv -s 2G | dd of=DriveCopy1.dd bs=4096 It can also be used directly as in the man page example pv file | nc -w 1 somewhere.com 3000 In this latter case it evaluates the file size directly. > best regards > Ulf > > -- "It might be a vision--of a shell, of a wheelbarrow, of a fairy kingdom on the far side of the hedge; or it might be the glory of speed; no one knew." --Mrs. Ramsay, speculating on why her little daughter might be dashing about, in "To the Lighthouse," by Virginia Woolf.
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Trying to understand man page for dd Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-28 14:00 +0200
Re: Trying to understand man page for dd JPlews <jw@plews.org.uk> - 2017-05-28 14:10 +0200
Re: Trying to understand man page for dd Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-28 14:30 +0200
Re: Trying to understand man page for dd Ulf Volmer <u.volmer@u-v.de> - 2017-06-02 00:00 +0200
Re: Trying to understand man page for dd Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-06-03 14:00 +0200
Re: Trying to understand man page for dd The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-05-28 14:10 +0200
Re: Trying to understand man page for dd Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-28 14:30 +0200
Re: Trying to understand man page for dd "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-05-28 14:50 +0200
Re: Trying to understand man page for dd Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-28 15:00 +0200
Re: Trying to understand man page for dd David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2017-05-29 02:50 +0200
Re: Trying to understand man page for dd "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-05-29 08:30 +0200
Re: Trying to understand man page for dd Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-29 14:10 +0200
Re: Trying to understand man page for dd David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-05-29 15:40 +0200
Re: Trying to understand man page for dd Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-29 16:20 +0200
Re: Trying to understand man page for dd "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-05-29 17:20 +0200
Re: Trying to understand man page for dd David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-05-29 17:20 +0200
Re: Trying to understand man page for dd David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2017-05-30 04:30 +0200
Re: Trying to understand man page for dd mbroe@oakland.edu - 2017-05-31 15:20 +0200
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