On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:02:10 -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > Yep...... don't have to fool with an oddball program (dcfldd). So if > you're dd'ing a disk, you need to: > > 1. dd the source to the destination. > 2. md5sum the source > 3. md5sum the destination. > > (3 passes on a big disk(s) takes a long time.) > > But if you use dcfldd instead of dd for the copy, then you'll get both > the copy and the md5 on the first pass. > > 1. dcfldd the source to the destination; get the md5. > 2. md5sum the destination.
You can use tee to send the dd output to both the destination and md5sum. -- Neil Bothwick Math and alcohol don't mix. Don't drink and derive.
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