Re: test3 DVD ISO not a multiple of 32KiB blocks
On 2004-04-30 at 08:34:33+01 Craig Emery <fedora-test(a)cemery.org.uk> wrote:
On 30/04/04 08:09, James Ralston wrote:
> FC2-test3-i386-DVD.iso is 4379752448 bytes, which is *not* a
> multiple of 32KiB [...] Therefore, growisofs pads it by 18432
> bytes up to 4379770880 bytes (133660 32KiB-sized blocks) when
> burning it. This makes it a pain to verify the MD5 checksums;
> instead of being able to just run md5sum on the device (e.g.,
> "md5sum /dev/hdc"), you have to use dd to read only the size of
> the ISO (without the pad).
Could this have contributed to my problem burning it?
I doubt it, but if you want to test, just manually append 18432 bytes
to FC2-test3-i386-DVD.iso, and try to burn it.
James