Replying to both Hal and V1...
I finally just bit the bullet and let "dd" run despite both the "apparent" time issue and the high temp at which my deuced Mac(hina) was running, and when it finally completed I realized that I must have originally run a "bs" much higher than 512, hence the time and temperature differences I was experiencing.
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Did you stop it via ctrl-C or how?Hmmm... I knew there was a keyboard command, but I couldn't remember it, so I ran sudo kill (dd process #).
Since you posted, though, I tried control-C, but all it did was de-focus my Terminal window; control-
option-C, on the other hand,
did kill the process, but with this anomalous entry:
Last login: Mon Jan 11 03:05:06 on ttys001
Artie-s-Computer-4:~ artie$ sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s2 of=/dev/null conv=noerror
^C33373+0 records in
33373+0 records out
17086976 bytes transferred in 6.338757 secs (2695635 bytes/sec)
(Emphasis added)
(Note: I ran TechTool Deluxe>Surface Scan when I experienced the "anomalous" Terminal behavior, and it didn't return any errors.)
Thanks to you both for your thoughts.
