[Cialug] disk write speed during transfer

Thomas Kula kula at tproa.net
Wed Dec 11 13:00:56 CST 2013


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:54:08PM -0600, Kenneth Younger wrote:
> I've got dd writing /dev/random to a disk.
> 
> Is there any way to determine how fast data is being written to the disk
> during this process?
> 

Take a look at iostat(1). 

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