On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 03:08:20PM -0800, Mike Hogsett wrote: > > > How do you do the MD5 hash of a whole CD? > > ( everything is a file ... ) > > If it is a physical CD and not an ISO image on another file system you > should be able to put the CD into the CD drive and run md5 on the CD > device's device node in /dev/
Yes, or if this fails due to md5 trying to read block sizes that are different from what the CD driver is prepared to output, you can use 'dd if=/dev/acd0 bs=<whatever> | md5' to force the issue. Kris
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