using dd for cloning

[Thilo Six]

elmo wrote the following on 09.02.2008 16:38

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> Can someone get me on the right track with the ' dd ' command?
> 
> elmo 

<--------------  man dd  -------------------

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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bye Thilo

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