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		koolba on Oct 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The cult of dd (2017) Or if you forget that, you send the dd process a USR1 signal and it will print the status. Though if you’re simply initializing from /dev/zero you’re probably better off with truncate to create a sparse file: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/truncate.1.html Can’t beat a program that doesn’t even write the bytes.

LukeShu on Oct 25, 2022 [–]

Or `fallocate` if you care about the space actually being allocated on disk (rather than the file being sparse).

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