[Linux-Anyway] Re: checking the md5sums of burn CD's
- From: Godwin Stewart <gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:26:24 +0200
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:04:49 +0100, John Richard Smith
<bagsofchoice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can someone remeind me how to check the md5sum of an iso burnt to CD.
>
> I seem to remember ,
> one has to know the size of the iso file then device by 1024 to
> calculate the number of sectors,
> then what comes after that ?
>
> my device is /dev/scd0
Almost. Divide the size of the ISO image by 2048 to get the number of
sectors.
Then, making sure the CD you just burned isn't mounted:
dd if=/dev/scd0 bs=2048 count=n | md5sum -
where n is the number of sectors found above.
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G. Stewart -- gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx -- gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx
Registered Linux user #284683 (Slackware 9.0, Linux 2.6.5)
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