Apologies, I was using a larger count size, which is restricted by a 32bit variable. (size_t).
FreeBSD's dd is 64 bit safe for all options... might be worth looking into. Darrin Chandler wrote: > Ted Unangst wrote: > > what bs are you using? > > Try to be more polite, please. He wasn't being rude, bs the block size option for the dd command... which I the slow idiot. had set to 1.. Sorry for the disruption all, won't happen again. -Nix Fan.