On 10/9/07, Patrick Shirkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone here have a bash script that will monitor disk activity or > accurately provide a progress bar of a simple file copy? > > I have a script that transfers data to a usb device using > > cp -a /xxx /usb_device & > > But it falls over with reporting back the actual amount of data that has > been transferred. It seems that the copy command doesn't return the > actual amount transferred to disk but more the amount it has queued to > transfer. > > For example if I transfer 200mb to a usb disk the copy command takes > about 30 seconds before it returns and the data takes about 5 minutes > before it is actually finished being transferred and the device is > unmountable. > > How would I track the 5 minutes of data transfer with bash?
Hi, AFAIK I don't see how you could do that with anything than a low-level API, let alone bash... Although I may be wrong... Surprise me ! Cheers, __________________ Marc-Olivier Barre, MarcO'Chapeau. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-dev
