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Re: howto verify burn?



On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:55:34PM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote:
> 
> > From: bob parker, Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:10 AM
> > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 03:16, Brad wrote:
> > > See this post for more detail on this subject:
> > > 
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200211/
> > msg03076.html
> > >
> > > -Brad
> > >
> > Checked it out. From the posts it is still inconclusive.
> > So far as jigdo is concerned I have the isos and the md5sums 
> > all match the 
> > source. This is about verifying the burnt cdr.
> > 
> > So far, the only reliable technique I have been able to find 
> > is to do it file 
> > by file. 
> > 
> > That is easy if you have no subdirectories on the cdr, but 
> > gets a little 
> > messy if you do, the files have to be piped to md5sum from 
> > find and xargs.
> > 
> > Example:
> > find /cdrom1/ -type f -print | xargs md5sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1 
> > | sort > sumscdr
> > 
> > mount whatever.iso -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt
> > 
> > ind /mnt/ -type f -print | xargs md5sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | 
> > sort > sumsiso
> > 
> > diff sumsiso sumscdr
> > 
> > Not sure if the sort step is really needed.

That is over kill.  Why make life complicated :-)  Check my post.

> I'm confused, Bob.
> 
> If you copy the ISO from the CD-R to your hard drive, and do an md5sum on
> it, and it matches the original ISO's md5sum, you just can't have two files
> that are different, unless they are different in miraculously md5sum
> balancing ways.

   http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200303/msg00777.html

There are junk sectors added when creating data on CD.  Just skip them
by knowing exact number.  It is all written in:

    http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tune.en.html#s9.3.7


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