Re: Watching the prgress of dd if=drive1 of=drive2

[Pierre Riteau]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm using dd to clone a drive. How can I watch the progress of this or
>  see the transfer rate in real time?
>
>

>From the manpage:

     If dd receives a SIGINFO (see the ``status'' argument for stty(1)) sig-
     nal, the current input and output block counts will be written to the
     standard error output in the same format as the standard completion mes-
     sage.

-- 
Pierre Riteau