[Cialug] disk write speed during transfer

[Kenneth Younger]

My PSA for the day: Be very careful with syntax when sending kill signals.


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Jonathan A. Kollasch <jakllsch at kollasch.net
> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:54:08PM -0600, Kenneth Younger wrote:
> > I've got dd writing /dev/random to a disk.
> >
> > Is there any way to determine how fast data is being written to the disk
> > during this process?
>
> You can send a SIGINFO (or on Linux SIGUSR1) to the dd process to have
> it display progress and rate information.
>
>         Jonathan Kollasch
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