Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re:MD5SUM
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:09:29
Message-Id: 201403151109.17642.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re:MD5SUM by William Kenworthy
1 On Saturday 15 Mar 2014 01:42:51 William Kenworthy wrote:
2 > On 15/03/14 03:29, Guido Budack wrote:
3 > > Good proposition but why?
4 > > It works...
5 > >
6 > > Never change a running system :-/
7 >
8 > ahh ... its running, but its NOT running correctly! (if you are
9 > referring to what I think you are)
10 >
11 > check if you have caching/buffering between you and the file (i.e., is
12 > it over NFS, cephfs etc) - e.g., this used to happen sometimes when
13 > trying to md5sum cdrom's whilst in a cd drive.
14
15 The cd hash will never be the same with the iso image saved on a disk which
16 was used to burn it with, because the cd includes data at the end of the
17 image, the 'lead out' section which closes the session. If you dd the correct
18 number of bytes and pipe these to md5sum then the hash should be the same.
19
20 --
21 Regards,
22 Mick

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