On 2018-06-26, Ax0n <a...@h-i-r.net> wrote: > When I'm dd-ing images (e.g. flashing SD Cards for raspberry pi), I > occasionally use pv from packages to do the file reading e.g. > > pv armv7.img | doas dd bs=1M of=/dev/rsd1c > > pv will send the file/device contents to stdout as fast as it can read it, > and dd will read stdin to write the file to disk (or to the raw device). pv > outputs a status bar, throughput statistics and ETA to stderr so you can > watch the progress.
pv can be useful, but it can also slow things down a lot sometimes. A common shell config on BSDs is to have this: stty status ^T Then you can press ^T to send SIGINFO to the active process, it works for a few things (some other common ones besides dd are ping and fsck).
