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From: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
Subject: Re: Advice requested
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 19:57:52 -0500
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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