What does an asterisk "*" mean in hexdump output?

I print MBR with hexdump and I get the following output:

000001a0  67 60 6f 70 65 72 61 74  69 6e 67 60 73 79 73 74  |g`operating`syst|
000001b0  65 6d 00 40 00 63 7b da  c5 f5 61 68 00 40 00 40  |[email protected]{...ah.@.@|
000001c0  00 40 00 40 00 40 00 40  00 40 00 40 00 40 00 40  |.@.@.@.@.@.@.@.@|
*
000001f0  00 40 00 40 00 40 00 40  00 40 00 40 00 40 55 ea  |.@.@.@.@.@.@.@U.|
00000200

What does the astersik * mean in the output?


A line in the hexdump output consisting just a * means same as the line above. This is mentioned in the hexdump's manpage at the -v option (easy to be overlooked).