Re: disks differ after cloning with dd
On 13/11/13 18:09, Tixy wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 10:37 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>> On 13/11/13 01:40, Andre Majorel wrote:
> [...]
>>> Unfortunately, GNU dd does not have a --progress option but last
>>> time I looked, it responded to signal USR1 by writing its
>>> current stats on stderr. So you can use ps to find out the PID
>>> of your dd(1) process then kill -USR1 <PID> from time to time to
>>> see how far along it is.
>>
>>
>> DD_PID=$(ps -eo pid,comm | awk '$2 == “dd” {print $1}')
>> watch kill -USR1 $DD_PID
>
> Or just use killall which finds process by name for you...
>
> watch killall -USR1 dd
>
Neat.
Succinct.
Best. I'll use that thanks :)
Even better than:-
while [ : ] ; do killall -SIGINFO dd && sleep 5 || exit ; done
Any of the three can be added to ~./bash_aliases which is where I store
a string that launches a nice kdialog gui to show progress.
All need to be run in another console after launching the dd the user
wants a progress report on.
Kind regards
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