-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-05-05 at 21:05 +0300, Andras Mantia wrote:
On Monday 05 May 2008, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2008-05-05 at 08:45 +0300, Andras Mantia wrote:
md5sum /dev/dvd
Better use: dd if=/dev/dvd | head --bytes=4595124224 | md5sum
I'm curious: Why? :-?
I mean, why is it better, what is the advanteage?
Because without it some padding bytes are read and the md5sum will be different. That is the explanation I read and the personal experience as well.
Ah... Does that apply to the md5sum command used directly, or only via dd? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIH2SttTMYHG2NR9URAuZ2AJ4htVk2WKfaNi9+n7pQJRuxeiF3GQCfT6VI D05obr3In3CU93Uk7IYG6co= =5LLb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org