[Nottingham] cp and a progress/working indicator

[Jason Irwin]

On 14/06/13 09:55, Andy White wrote:
>> Assuming this is linux, then:
But of course!

>> Once you get the pid of the cp, you can cat /proc/<pid>/io to show
>> raw io stats, and you can look at which fd in ls -l /proc/<pid>/fd is your
>> destination and cat the corresponding /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/N.
>> There's also the package [iotop].
Thanks for that...these copies are taking a long, long time (longer than
I'd expect).
I may splat them shortly and try this.
Or just use rsync!

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