Hello Ven! Thursday, October 04, 2001, 11:48:55 AM, you wrote: > dd if=/dev/hde of=/tmp/hde bs=1M count=4 > dd if=/dev/hdf of=/tmp/hdf bs=1M count=4 skip=5120 The offset is not there. I did the following: 1. dd if=/dev/hde of=/tmp/hde bs=1M count=4 dd if=/dev/hdg of=/tmp/hdg bs=1M count=4 cd /tmp od hde > hde.od od hdg > hdg.od diff hde.od hdg.od the result was at the following address: 36,38c36,37 011060 000001 000001 162777 002250 000000 005317 011064 011100 000200 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 011120 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 --- 011060 000001 003001 162777 002250 000000 005317 011064 011100 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 -- Üdv: Tib mailto:gemes@xxxxxxxxx