[TriLUG] New disk woes ( 13th )

[Alan Porter via TriLUG]

First of all, thanks for the tips on Clonezilla.  That looks like a
must-have tool for the toolbox.


> I saw in some previous messages some had recommended using dd to copy
> disks. While that works, you get minimal to no feedback until the dd
> task completes.

You can get a little bit of feedback from 'dd' by going to another 
shell
window and doing `while true ; do killall -s USR1 dd ; sleep 2 ; done`.

When dd receives the USR1 or USR2 signal, it will spit out that summary
line with the number of blocks copied.


Alan