[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 23:41:34 +0100
Godwin Stewart wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:32:54 +0200, Horror Vacui <horrorvacui@xxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>>Wait a minute. Your CD-writing howto advises to divide the size by 2.
>>
>
>No, it advises to divide the number of kilobytes on the CD (as displayed by
>df) by 2.
>
>>From what I understood here, Meph was looking at the number of bytes in the
>.iso file he burned to the CD.
>
>>Apropos: is specifying the bs=x and count=x parameters necessary at all?
>>What would happen if there's nothing but if= and of=?
>>
>
>You'll get an I/O error when dd tries to read beyond the end of the CD.
>
>And there is no of= because in this instance I'm getting dd to spit the data
>out on stdout, and then piping that into md5sum.
>
One further question if I may , why devide by 2048 , isn't there 1024 to
a sector ?
John
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