Found an odd power of two size limit in dd. :) On a 64bit platform shouldn't the following command have done the expected thing instead of quietly clipping to 2^31? [jmorris@mjolnir ~]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=3221225472 count=1 0+1 records in 0+1 records out 2147479552 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 1.94223 s, 1.1 GB/s [jmorris@mjolnir ~]$ rpm -qf `which dd` coreutils-7.6-11.fc12.x86_64