quick (and perhaps foolish) question: MD4sum of CD
Leonard den Ottolander
leonardjo at hetnet.nl
Fri Sep 26 15:00:09 UTC 2003
Hello Tom,
> "md5sum /dev/cdrom"
Never realized it could be as easy as that :). I usually do a
dd if=/dev/cdrom | md5sum
. Difference when using dd is that you could also specify a bs and count
which will avoid errors about sectors not found at the end of the disk.
> The problem with that is that it is possible for it to
> fail and the cd still be good or so I am told.
Why would that be? Were you told that as well? The above mentioned errors
should not cause md5sum to produce a wrong result.
Bye,
Leonard.
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