"Vance, Jack D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello - can you please tell me what the numeric value is in the following > output? > "0000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > * > 1415102464". > > The command used was "od -Ad -tx1" run on a wiped 10.0GB hard drive with > 10,005,037,056 bytes.
You're running an old version of 'od', which cannot output offsets greater than 2*32 bytes; the offsets wrap around. That bug was fixed several years ago (in 2000 or 2001 -- I can't recall offhand). I cannot reproduce the bug with coreutils 5.93 od <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.93.tar.gz>: 518-penguin $ dd if=/dev/null of=big bs=10MiB seek=1024 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.010626 seconds, 0.0 kB/s 519-penguin $ ls -l big -rw-r--r-- 1 eggert eggert 10737418240 Nov 22 12:49 big 520-penguin $ od -Ad -tx1 big 0000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 * 10737418240 I suggest upgrading to the latest version of 'od'. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
