[Lvlug] verifying copied cd's

[Linc Fessenden]

On Fri, 10 May 2002, jeff wrote:

> On Friday 10 May 2002 20:06, you wrote:
> 
> > Yup.. Use md5sum.  Slap your cdrom in the drive and *without mounting it*
> > run md5sum on the block device, ie /dev/hdc or /dev/cdrom, or whatever it
> > is on your system, then run it again on your copy (be it ISO, or
> > another physical cd or whatever.... For instance on my system I would get
> > this result on a certain cd....:
> > sh-2.05$ md5sum /dev/cdrom
> > de1230b7817c882c0be9bb01debe3fda  /dev/cdrom
> > sh-2.05$ md5sum cdcopy.iso
> > de1230b7817c882c0be9bb01debe3fda  cdcopy.iso
> > sh-2.05$
> 
> Thanks for the help Linc
> 
> Jeff

You're welcome.

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