[plug] dd progress bar

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Thu Sep 18 15:35:26 WST 2003


> However... it really, really needs a progress bar in `dd` so that the 
> user can tell how much data has been written to disk. The lack of a 
> progress bar makes it feel like it's taking FOREVER, when it's only a 
> few minutes. I've found a patch to `dd` to add a progress bar, but it 
> was a rather strange one and appeared to be for an old version of `dd`.\

Aarrrggh. As so often happens, I found one after posting, despite having 
looked for it just the other day. Still, suggestions are welcome.

Craig Ringer


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