9 Oct
2007
9 Oct
'07
10:01 a.m.
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 07:30 -0400, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 05:50:12PM +0700, Patrick
Shirkey wrote:
Hi,
That is what I currently do but it is confusing for other people and I
would like to make my bash a little less hackish.
For example I would like to print a nice little progress bar similar to
how yum monitors an update/download.
Cheers.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.
For example if I transfer 200mb to a usb disk the
copy command takes
about 30 seconds before it returns and the data takes about 5 minutes
before it is actually finished being transferred and the device is
unmountable.
How would I track the 5 minutes of data transfer with bash?
There's not a super-easy way since that data is being written in the
background out of the buffer-cache. You could use iostat and vmstat
for this purpose, but it kinda seems like overkill to me.
"iostat -x" gives you detailed I/O statistics on each partition
"vmstat" gives you information on various VM data, including buffers
My idea would just be to umount the disk and wait until that returns.