Watching drive read/write, knowing when copying is done

[wizard]

Drive-watch is a small utility that monitors drive reads and writes. It can serve as an indicator for when a large file copy operation is complete. It grew from this post on USB corruption: viewtopic.php?t=11960

Drv-watch.sh uses dstat, which can be installed from the PPM/repo. In use it opens a small URXVT terminal window and displays scrolling read/write speeds. It can be left running on the desktop or minimzed to the tray until needed.

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Consistant write speeds that are zero or low "k" indicate copy operations are complete. Drv-watch is useful for seeing the read/write speeds of both internal and external drives. Particularly interesting for USB flash drives which may be painfully slow.

Additionally, drv-watch can be easliy modified to display other information such as network speeds.

First, install: dstat
Then download the file, remove the .gz and click it to run.

wizard

[Flash]

The copy command, cp, has an option, -v (for verbose) that might be TMI.

[wizard]

@Flash

The advantage with drv-watch is it is just watching the drives no matter what program or command you use to do the copy operation.

Thanks
wizard

[bigpup]

Drv-watch.sh uses dstat, which can be installed from the PPM/repo.

Not in BookwormPup64 10.0.6

It's PPM does not have it.

Have to get it by using Apt or Synaptic GUI Package Manager.

[bigpup]

Here is a pet package of drive-watch.

It provides a menu entry under menu ->Utility

Puts the drv-watch file in /usr/bin/

Tried to pick a generic icon for it to show in the menu entry, but icon may not be in all Puppy versions.

Still need to install dstat to use it.
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