Mike, On Sunday 10 December 2006 09:45, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Sunday 10 December 2006 09:36, Mike McMullin wrote:
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Interesting. Is there a way, independent of YaST to do a m5sum check on mounted optical media?
The CD / DVD drive device remains accessible as a regular block device even when the file system it contains is mounted. You can do this:
% md5sum /dev/hdc
Naturally, you must use the proper device name for your system. You may need to be or become root to do this.
For kicks, here's the result for the 10.0 distribution DVD: 7d7dee93b47903158a2c648c3119cf47 /dev/hdc This is the value for the 10.2 GM DVD: ecb3ec66aa306dd880ae78e5f2b5200d /dev/sr0 By the way, if you have GKrellM or a similar graphical system activity monitor, it's mildly fun to watch the I/O throughput as the reading process proceeds from the small inner tracks to the larger outer ones (and, for dual-layer discs, decreasing again as it goes back to the inner ones). Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org