> I write the backup using tar czf (compressed) > When I read it back, I get around 15G uncompressed. if you just read it back with dd so you can see how much it wrote that would be interesting - it might help identify any obvious boundary code to check (eg power of two boundaries for overflows) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html