2008/12/19 rjubio <rju...@gmail.com>: > How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > >
Hey, As a tangent to the question, try running it in the background and checking the progress using kill -USR1 This should make it easier to figure out how long it will take. >From the dd man page: | Sending a USR1 signal to a running 'dd' process makes it print I/O | statistics to standard error and then resume copying. | | $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$! | $ kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid | | 18335302+0 records in 18335302+0 records out 9387674624 bytes | (9.4 GB) copied, 34.6279 seconds, 271 MB/s cheers, Owen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
