From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Stacked array data recovery
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:15:58 +0100
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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.

Cheers,

John.