How to display progress when formatting a partition?

Asked Aug 20 '18 at 11:20

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I am creating an ext4 partition in my external USB stick from CLI. While I am able to do this successfully with mkfs, I haven't found a way to display a progress bar (or percentage) while formatting.

Is there another command/package (or flag) that provides that kind of information?

edited Mar 21 '22 at 08:30

Zanna

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asked Aug 20 '18 at 11:20

gep

with python it should be possible! Hah I see bash is capable look here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/238073/how-to-add-a-progress-bar-to-a-shell-script – George Udosen Aug 20 '18 at 11:24
thank you for the information.. i have already seen that post but i cannot use python. I am on a very resource limited embedded environment – gep Aug 20 '18 at 11:30
There is a cool script there pmonitor did you try that – George Udosen Aug 20 '18 at 11:31
i just tried to use it but it didnt work (or at least it didnt with the command i used) – gep Aug 20 '18 at 11:43
maybe using directly the PID will work but it is not very useful when the formatting time is short (small partition/usb) – gep Aug 20 '18 at 11:48
You need to hold off on that pmonitor tool as it has awk issues and there is a current open pull request for a fix – George Udosen Aug 20 '18 at 11:49
Does this answer your question? Create a progress bar in Bash – karel Mar 21 '22 at 09:07

How to display progress when formatting a partition?

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