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.
where replace 4595124224 with the size in bytes of the iso (this value is for beta1 iso).
Why not use "count" and "bs" instead of "| head..."? It saves a huge piping job.
Well, I did not think about what is better, I took the above command from a website. :) Andras -- Quanta Plus developer - http://quanta.kdewebdev.org K Desktop Environment - http://www.kde.org