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I try to run simple test case on linux operating system with dd command .

I create a simple disk image with this command : 

dd if=/dev/urandom of=disk.img bs=1M count=100

This is First Test :
Now I run this commands : 

dd if=disk.img of=output_1 bs=1k count=4
dd if=disk.img of=output_2 bs=4k count=1
md5sum output_1 output_2 
bc0245c10ff529042fd2a5335ed1573f  output_1
bc0245c10ff529042fd2a5335ed1573f  output_2

You can see output_1 and output_2 exactly has same md5 hash .

This is Second Test :
Now I add skip parameter to dd command : 

dd if=disk.img of=output_1 skip=1500 bs=1k count=4 
dd if=disk.img of=output_2 skip=1500 bs=4k count=1
c5b0e8dde317c25011b31a5c48580477  output_1
4585d39fcf93cec4abc6c55094aac724  output_2

Why result is difference for this blocks ?
What part of my test is wrong ?

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  • you should also add iflag=fullblock Commented Jan 23, 2020 at 8:50

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The skip parameter is in (input) blocks, not in bytes, as written in the man page:

skip=N    skip N ibs-sized blocks at start of input

In the first case the skipped part is:

1500 * 1KiB = 1536000 bytes

The second case:

1500 * 4KiB = 6144000 bytes

As long as the involved values divide exactly you can adjust. For the second case using 1500*1k/4k=375 (skip=375) will give back the same result as the first case.

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