I am working on a little endian system. Suppose I have the following data that I write to a sector in a disk:
$ hexdump file
04eb 0008 ...
$ cat file > /dev/sdb
Now when I read it back to memory, how will it look like in the memory and why?
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unless you specifically requestion an endianness conversion as the data's read or written to/from disk, memory address #0 of the data will be byte #0 of the data on disk, mem #1 -> byte #1, mem #2 -> byte #2, etc... and the same would happen on reading. byte #0 goes into mem #0, byte #1 -> mem #1. – Marc B Sep 24 '12 at 05:29
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@Marc: What I see is eb04 0800...Why is that? – Bruce Sep 24 '12 at 05:30
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1`hexdump` might be doing endianness conversion. – nneonneo Sep 24 '12 at 05:33
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@nneonneo: How do I turn that off? – Bruce Sep 24 '12 at 05:34
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@nneonneo: Found it...it is -C.. – Bruce Sep 24 '12 at 05:35
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2847360/hexdump-confusion – Bruce Sep 24 '12 at 05:42