location of the "disk identifier"

Question

According to Wikipedia, "disk signature" is a 32 bit value stored in MBR on bytes 440 - 443. According to fdisk, my "disk identifier" is 00043afc in hex:

# fdisk -lu /dev/sda | grep identi
Disk identifier: 0x00043afc
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However, I can not confirm this with dd:

# dd if=/dev/sda skip=439 bs=1 count=4 2>/dev/null | xxd -ps
c3fc3a04
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Even if I check the entire MBR, I do not see the "disk identifier":

# dd if=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 2>/dev/null | xxd -ps | grep 43a
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Where is the "disk identifier" stored?

Answer 1

It appears that you found your answer with the first dd already. It's just in different endian order. Read the bytes (two-character hex sequences) reverse. And set the skip value to 440 instead of 439.