Once upon a time, jd1008 <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> said: > $ ls -l > total 13662104K > -rw-r--r-- 1 jd jd 5970991104 Mar 14 12:15 test > -rw-r--r-- 1 jd jd 8018991104 Mar 14 12:02 Our_Group_Picnic.iso > {3507-jd@localhost}$ time dd if=Our_Group_Picnic.iso of=test bs=2K > skip=2915523K conv=noerror,notrunc oflag=append > dd: ‘Our_Group_Picnic.iso’: cannot skip to specified offset Again, you are doing math wrong. You told dd to skip to byte 6114294890496 (2 * 1024 * 2915523 * 1024) in a file that is only 8018991104 bytes long. Nothing wrong with dd... -- Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org