• tetris11@feddit.uk
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    3 days ago

    Yeah file dialog estimates got a lot better once the buffer size and sync flag was invented.

    dd if=large-ass_file.txt \
       of=/mnt/usb1/large_ass-file.txt \
       status=progress bs=30M oflag=sync
    
    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I’m not that sophisticated, I start the copy in a filemanager, and then I open a terminal and use sync to see when it’s actually finished. 😋