Even easier, have stty status set to ^T, and run dd . When you want to know where you are in the process hit ^T. Lots (most?) of programs will respond to a SIGINFO request.
--STeve Andre' On Jun 10, 2020, 12:48, at 12:48, Luke Small <lukensm...@gmail.com> wrote: >if you have access to packages, you could "pkg_add pv" > >and: > >"dd if=/dev/random | pv | dd of=/dev/rsdXc bs=1m" > >It will show you in real time how much random > >data has been written to disk. > >-Luke > > >On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:43 AM Luke Small <lukensm...@gmail.com> >wrote: > >> I mean: "dd if=/dev/random | pv | dd of=/dev/rsdXc bs=1m" >> >> -Luke >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:41 AM Luke Small <lukensm...@gmail.com> >wrote: >> >>> if you have access to packages, you could "pkg_add pv" >>> >>> and: >>> >>> "dd if=/dev/random | pv | of=/dev/rsdXc bs=1m" >>> >>> It will show you in real time how much random >>> >>> data has been written to disk. >>> >>> -Luke >>> >>
