On Don, 2012-06-28 at 14:57 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/27/2012 2:19 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > > > Ok, thanks I will. And additionally I will write down what time I > > started each command so when one of them still hasn't finished after 12 > > hours or so the disk will have to be replaced right? > > That's unnecessary. Linux retains the start time of each process: > > ~$ ps -ef|grep dd > ... > root 4338 4307 95 14:49 pts/0 00:00:48 dd if=/dev/zero of=./test > ... > > The 5th column shows the start time. If the process has been running > more than 24 hours the start date will be shown instead of the start time. Thanks for that :-) The first drive (sdj) has finished. I'm now dding the second (sdk). This one caused problems I think. I'll report how it went... Cheers Ramon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html