Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (845 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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.

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