On 11/02/2015 07:44 PM, o1bigtenor wrote: > root@debianbase:/# dd if=/dev/md0 bs=1M count=16 |hexdump -c |head -n 1000 > 0000000 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 Please use a capital 'C' as the hexdump option. Hexdump collapses repeated data as a convenience ... that I was counting on. Phil -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html