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From: Ramon Hofer <ramonhofer@bluewin.ch>
Subject: Re: Stacked array data recovery
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:19:47 +0200
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On Fre, 2012-06-29 at 11:15 +0100, John Robinson wrote:
> On 29/06/2012 08:44, Ramon Hofer wrote:
> > On Don, 2012-06-28 at 14:44 -0400, Krzysztof Adamski wrote:
> >> You can send USR1 signal to the dd command and it will print how far it
> >> has gone, like this:
> >> # kill -USR1 <pid of dd>
> >
> > Great!
> > Thanks for that :-)
> 
> When running dd on whole discs, I usually run:
> 
> while p=`pidof dd` ; do kill -USR1 $p ; sleep 30 ; done
> 
> so I have a continuous progress monitor.

Very cool!
Thanks too :-)