[Cialug] disk write speed during transfer

[Jonathan A. Kollasch]

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?

You can send a SIGINFO (or on Linux SIGUSR1) to the dd process to have
it display progress and rate information.

	Jonathan Kollasch