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How to zero out a usb and have output on the screen to monitor its progress showing the number of bytes that are being zeroed
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX status=progress
try on your machine
This command will zero out a USB drive (replace 'sdX' with the actual device name) and display progress information on the screen showing the number of bytes that are being zeroed.
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