[Linux-Anyway] Re: checking the md5sums of burn CD's
- From: John Richard Smith <bagsofchoice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:05:29 +0100
Godwin Stewart wrote:
>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.
>
Thanks Godwin,
That was the one I was trying to remember
John
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