At 4:16 PM +0100 7/20/06, Paul Smith wrote: >On 7/20/06, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Is there some way of checking the integrity of a CD/DVD media? >> >> 1. checksum the files using md5sum/sha1sum >> 1b sign the result with gpg >> 2. check the burnt files against your checksums > >Thanks, Nicolas, but in case the media is already recorded and without >any access to the original files? dd if=/dev/dvd of=/dev/null bs=2048 count=5000000 It won't copy all those blocks (about 10 GB), but if the DVD is good it will copy the "expected" size from a single or double-layer DVD. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
