https://thebin.net/tags/dd/Recent content in Dd on the binHugoen-USTue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://thebin.net/2011/08/bash-using-pv-to-display-progress-of-dd/Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://thebin.net/2011/08/bash-using-pv-to-display-progress-of-dd/<p>One of the biggest weaknesses of dd is that it has no way to display progress on its actions.  You can send a signal to the process which will pause, display statistics, and resume the process however this takes up alot of your terminal screen if you are doing any sort of long running copy.  Enter pv.  Pv allows us to monitor the progress of data through a pipe.</p> <h2 id="create-a-1gb-test-file">Create A 1GB Test File</h2> <p>This is the file that we will use to peform the following tests.</p>