Check the progress of the dd
process.
To check dd
progress execute the following command.
# kill -USR1 `pgrep -u \`whoami\` ^dd`
This command will send USR1 signal to every dd process owned by user.
dd
process will display overall progress when it receives USR1
signal.
# dd if=/dev/sdb of=./sdb.raw 133345+0 records in 133344+0 records out 68272128 bytes (68 MB) copied, 3.00926 s, 22.7 MB/s ... 15244673+0 records in 15244673+0 records out 7805272576 bytes (7,8 GB) copied, 2511,34 s, 3,1 MB/s ...