Want to know what dd is doing?
From another terminal type kill -USR1 $pid, where pid=`pidof dd`. This causes dd to spit out data speeds and amounts transferred so far. you might wrap it up in something like: pid=`pidof dd` while [[ -d /proc/$pid ]]; do kill -USR1 $pid && sleep 5; done Apparently pidof is deprecated or something?? If you…