Re: Checking the md5sum of a burned CD

["M. Lewis" <cajun@cajuninc.com>]

thveillon.debian wrote:
> M. Lewis a écrit :
> > I've burned a CD from a .iso image. Now I want to verify the burning
> > process worked correctly (there were no errors reported). Note, I
> > verified the md5sums of the .iso's before I burned them. So now I'd like
> > to check the burned CD against that md5sum.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
> Hi,
>
> "md5sum /dev/cdrom" or "md5sum /dev/scd0" works here (Squeeze and
> Lenny), whatever applies to your system.
> If you have I/O error check that it's not mounted, and not accessed by
> some other process (like "kio*" in KDE).
>
> Tom

Great. Thanks Tom. I was totally unaware it could be done as simply as that.

Mike

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