Re: CD images and trailing nulls

[Richard Atterer <richard@list04.atterer.net>]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:22:25PM +0000, Thaddeus H. Black wrote:
> I burn the image onto the CD, then dd(1) the image from /dev/cdrom back
> to the hard disk, and some of the trailing nulls are missing.

I read once on some web page that dd is not the best utility to read back
all the data on a CD. IIRC, the author recommended to 1) mount the CD, and
2) use cat to read the data. I haven't actually tried any of this myself...

Cheers,

  Richard

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