diff --git a/lib/libc/tests/gen/posix_spawn/Makefile b/lib/libc/tests/gen/posix_spawn/Makefile
index 9bb2cf1cbd5..9b687c6d5fe 100644
--- a/lib/libc/tests/gen/posix_spawn/Makefile
+++ b/lib/libc/tests/gen/posix_spawn/Makefile
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ CLEANFILES+=	h_nonexec
 .include "../../Makefile.netbsd-tests"
 
 h_zero:
-	dd if=/dev/zero of=h_zero bs=1k count=2
+	dd if=/dev/zero of=h_zero bs=1k count=2 status=none
 	chmod a+x h_zero
 
 CLEANFILES+=	h_zero
diff --git a/lib/libc/tests/sys/Makefile b/lib/libc/tests/sys/Makefile
index efc892ceb6c..c7b00530152 100644
--- a/lib/libc/tests/sys/Makefile
+++ b/lib/libc/tests/sys/Makefile
@@ -78,6 +78,6 @@ truncate_test_FILESGRP= wheel
 
 CLEANFILES=	truncate_test.root_owned
 truncate_test.root_owned:
-	dd if=/dev/null bs=1 count=1 of=${.TARGET}
+	dd if=/dev/null bs=1 count=1 of=${.TARGET} status=none
 
 .include <bsd.test.mk>
diff --git a/sys/boot/efi/boot1/Makefile b/sys/boot/efi/boot1/Makefile
index 7c983e3a417..5455e1a369e 100644
--- a/sys/boot/efi/boot1/Makefile
+++ b/sys/boot/efi/boot1/Makefile
@@ -113,7 +113,8 @@ boot1.efifat: boot1.efi
 	uudecode ${.CURDIR}/fat-${MACHINE}.tmpl.bz2.uu
 	mv fat-${MACHINE}.tmpl.bz2 ${.TARGET}.bz2
 	bzip2 -f -d ${.TARGET}.bz2
-	dd if=boot1.efi of=${.TARGET} seek=${BOOT1_OFFSET} conv=notrunc
+	dd if=boot1.efi of=${.TARGET} seek=${BOOT1_OFFSET} conv=notrunc \
+	    status=none
 
 CLEANFILES= boot1.efi boot1.efifat
 
diff --git a/sys/boot/i386/boot2/Makefile b/sys/boot/i386/boot2/Makefile
index 25de8c4bed9..195206f1c65 100644
--- a/sys/boot/i386/boot2/Makefile
+++ b/sys/boot/i386/boot2/Makefile
@@ -72,14 +72,14 @@ CLEANFILES+=	boot2 boot2.ld boot2.ldr boot2.bin boot2.out boot2.o \
 boot2: boot2.ld
 	@set -- `ls -l boot2.ld`; x=$$((7680-$$5)); \
 	    echo "$$x bytes available"; test $$x -ge 0
-	dd if=boot2.ld of=${.TARGET} obs=7680 conv=osync
+	dd if=boot2.ld of=${.TARGET} obs=7680 conv=osync status=none
 
 boot2.ld: boot2.ldr boot2.bin ${BTXKERN}
 	btxld -v -E ${ORG2} -f bin -b ${BTXKERN} -l boot2.ldr \
 	    -o ${.TARGET} -P 1 boot2.bin
 
 boot2.ldr:
-	dd if=/dev/zero of=${.TARGET} bs=512 count=1
+	dd if=/dev/zero of=${.TARGET} bs=512 count=1 status=none
 
 boot2.bin: boot2.out
 	${OBJCOPY} -S -O binary boot2.out ${.TARGET}
diff --git a/sys/boot/i386/pxeldr/Makefile b/sys/boot/i386/pxeldr/Makefile
index af3a436b5d7..c4e008fed02 100644
--- a/sys/boot/i386/pxeldr/Makefile
+++ b/sys/boot/i386/pxeldr/Makefile
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ CLEANFILES+= ${BOOT}.tmp
 
 ${BOOT}: ${LDR} ${LOADER}
 	cat ${LDR} ${LOADER} > ${.TARGET}.tmp
-	dd if=${.TARGET}.tmp of=${.TARGET} obs=2k conv=osync
+	dd if=${.TARGET}.tmp of=${.TARGET} obs=2k conv=osync status=none
 	rm ${.TARGET}.tmp
 
 LDFLAGS+=-e start -Ttext ${ORG} -Wl,-N,-S,--oformat,binary
diff --git a/sys/boot/i386/zfsboot/Makefile b/sys/boot/i386/zfsboot/Makefile
index 8c94996c569..5ecf13c25d5 100644
--- a/sys/boot/i386/zfsboot/Makefile
+++ b/sys/boot/i386/zfsboot/Makefile
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ BOOT2SIZE=	65536
 zfsboot2: zfsboot.ld
 	@set -- `ls -l zfsboot.ld`; x=$$((${BOOT2SIZE}-$$5)); \
 	    echo "$$x bytes available"; test $$x -ge 0
-	dd if=zfsboot.ld of=${.TARGET} obs=${BOOT2SIZE} conv=osync
+	dd if=zfsboot.ld of=${.TARGET} obs=${BOOT2SIZE} conv=osync status=none
 
 zfsboot.ld: zfsboot.ldr zfsboot.bin ${BTXKERN}
 	btxld -v -E ${ORG2} -f bin -b ${BTXKERN} -l zfsboot.ldr \