Tyler J. Wagner wrote at about 10:07:51 +0100 on Tuesday, July 23, 2013:
 > On 2013-07-23 10:02, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
 > > dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1M
 > 
 > For those not familiar with dd, it doesn't display progress when working.
 > And dd'ing a 2 TB drive can take a long time. If you want progress, use this:
 > 
 > dd dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M | pv | dd of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1M
 > 
 > pv is great.
 > 

Another alternative is to occasionally do: kill -USR1 <pid of dd process>
from another terminal screen which will print the progress at that
point...

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