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by ysangkok 4360 days ago
How do you fire that signal from the console ?
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koenigdavidmj 4360 days ago 

  pkill -USR1 dd
You'll need to use ps to get the pid if you've got multiple dd instances running, and you'll of course need to run that as root if your dd instance is running as root.
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spoiler 4360 days ago
By using

    kill -s <Signal> <Process ID>
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