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From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:48:27
Message-Id: 4c0bfb5b.n0CegtEEVhvy3JzX%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions by 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o@gmail.com>
1 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > On 06/05/10 16:11, Manuel Klemenz wrote:
4 > > I'm calculating checksums over partitions just by calling # md5sum
5 > > /dev/sda1 or for the complete disk (incl. partition table + all
6 > > partitions) # md5sum /dev/sda
7 > >
8 > > that's it :) - works with any distro/liveDVD
9 > >
10 >
11 > Yep...... don't have to fool with an oddball program (dcfldd). So if
12 > you're dd'ing a disk, you need to:
13 >
14 > 1. dd the source to the destination.
15 > 2. md5sum the source
16 > 3. md5sum the destination.
17
18 Why not just call:
19
20 sdd if=/dev/something bs=1m -md5 -onull
21
22 Jörg
23
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[gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o@×××××.com>