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I have an old PC here and I want to check the HDD. I want to read it once completely into /dev/null. While doing this I want to see the speed.

Because the PC is old I couldn't boot a recent Debian version.

But I got Knoppix running. There is a lot of stuff on the CD but unfortunately dd does not support the status=progress option (because it's old) and pv is not installed. Any ideas?

Knoppix version is 3.2.

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  • Try sending signal USR1 to the dd process: kill -USR1 $PID Commented Feb 21, 2023 at 16:28
  • @Panki Yes that works. Commented Feb 21, 2023 at 16:35
  • Lots of Debian and other distros archives on the net: you could simply download a dd/pv binary and run it. Also, if I remember correctly Knoppix contains GCC which allows to compile applications. Commented Feb 21, 2023 at 17:06
  • @ArtemS.Tashkinov Of course. But sending signal USR1 to dd is much easier. Commented Feb 21, 2023 at 17:11
  • pv -petrab looks/works so much nicer :-) Commented Feb 21, 2023 at 17:14

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