Fw: How long will this take?

[Matthew Campbell <trenix25@pm.me>]

I have started the process over from the beginning.  It seems to respond well to obs=4M as the write speed has gone from 3.7 MB/s to 28.2 MB/s, which is about the same as where it was with obs=1M.  It should take a couple of days to complete this write process.

The WD drive that I have, which is connected to a separate USB2 port, showed a write speed of 27.5 Mb/s.

I am using:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb obs=4M status=progress

The read speed was faster, of course.

name=Matthew%20Campbell&email=trenix25%40pm.me





-------- Original Message --------
On Jun 9, 2020, 2:39 AM, Nicolas George < george@nsup.org> wrote:
> Christopher David Howie (12020-06-08):
> > I'd suggest simply adding "status=progress" which gives you a summary every
> > second including bytes written, elapsed time, and average transfer rate.
>
> How do you add "status=progress" to a process that has already been
> running for three days?
>
> Regards,
>
> -- 
>   Nicolas George