if you install "dcfldd" instead you get some feed back it's basically dd with a few tweeks.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 August 2010 11:41, Alan Pope <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan@popey.com">alan@popey.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On 11 August 2010 11:39, Dan Fish <<a href="mailto:dan@fishms.org">dan@fishms.org</a>> wrote:<br> > My only beef with dd is the lack of feedback - nothing appears to be<br> > happening. There's a replacement in the repos called dcfldd. Does a<br> > similar thing and accepts similar arguments but gives back a progress<br> > bar of sorts.<br> <br> </div><a href="http://linuxcommando.blogspot.com/2008/06/show-progress-during-dd-copy.html" target="_blank">http://linuxcommando.blogspot.com/2008/06/show-progress-during-dd-copy.html</a><br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> Cheers,<br> Al.<br> <br> --<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards<br><br>Bill Cumming<br><br>Twitter: @s0l_uk<br>Skype: s0litaire<br>eMail: <a href="mailto:bill@s0l.co.uk">bill@s0l.co.uk</a><br>