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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.

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

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

@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

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.

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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