Re: [SLUG] find block number?

From: Levi Bard (taktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktak@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 17 2006 - 11:05:59 EDT


> If I have a long-running process, say "dd", is there any way to find out
> which block of stdin it's reading?

>From dd(1):
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

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