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I am trying to write Raspbian to an SD card and see the progress of the write procedure, is there another command that will do this?

Todd
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  • sudo apt-get install dcfldd. – saiarcot895 May 29 '15 at 23:08
  • You really should clean up your question - it took me some time to gather what that was about. Remember we hope that questions and their answers will be useful for a longer time. – guntbert May 31 '15 at 10:39
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    Regarding progress of dd - consider checking this post: http://askubuntu.com/questions/215505/how-do-you-monitor-the-progress-of-dd – dufte Jun 20 '16 at 18:46

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To see the progress of dd, You can use eg. this command to send usr1 signal. When dd receive the signal it will print it's current status.

Open an extra terminal window and copy paste this:

sudo kill -usr1 $(ps aux | grep " dd " | grep -v sudo | grep -v grep | awk 'begin{}{print $2}end')

If you want to do it manually, use ps aux and find the pid of dd.If you run dd with sudo, you should also use sudo for kill command. sudo kill -usr1 pid

Edit: Found a shorter one-line here using pgrep https://askubuntu.com/a/215521/196592

However, when I am at it, I see no reason for not using pkill instead eg. sudo pkill -USR1 ^dd

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  • I will give that a try next time I dd it finished writing while I was waiting for replies up votes in the future – Todd May 29 '15 at 23:36
  • After reading further on dcfldd I wonder why it isn't incorporated into ubu/linux as a standard command – Todd May 29 '15 at 23:41