On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:48:40AM +0000, I wrote:
> So, I thought I'd dump part of the disk to a file to examine on another
> machine. I did 'dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=/disk bs=512 count=1024', dd reported
> that it had written 512k, but the file was only 470k (ish).

Over the weekend, I did a bit more playing around, and instead of dd-ing from
the disk, I used /dev/zero. The same thing happened - I ended up with a file
that was 24k too small when trying to create a 512k file. I'll do some more
tests tonight with different sized files to see if there's any pattern to how
much the files get truncated by.

Is there anything I can do to try to help track this down?

Ian.