> >On Sun,29.Mar.09, 20:28:44, Angelin Lalev wrote: > >> Is there a way to check a written DVD against the checksum of the iso > >> image written on it?
> In <20090329202842.ga3...@think.homelan>, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >$ md5sum /dev/dvd > > > >This should result in *exactly* the same checksum as the iso On 29.03.09 16:27, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Not in my experience. Both DVDs and CDs have a physical sector size. If the > image is not a multiple of that sector size, the md5sum of the block device > and the image will differ, because of the extra bits in the last physical > sector. afaik, if the same image is written to multiple CDs/DVDs, they all should have the same md5sum, independently on its size. That is the one md5sum shjould report. The same for sha1sum. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. Save the whales. Collect the whole set. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org