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From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:47:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c0bfb5b.n0CegtEEVhvy3JzX%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C0BF0B2.3080604@gmail.com>

7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/05/10 16:11, Manuel Klemenz wrote:
> > I'm calculating checksums over partitions just by calling # md5sum
> > /dev/sda1 or for the complete disk (incl. partition table + all
> > partitions) # md5sum /dev/sda
> >
> > that's it :) - works with any distro/liveDVD
> >
>
> Yep...... don't have to fool with an oddball program (dcfldd). So if
> you're dd'ing a disk, you need to:
>
> 1. dd the source to the destination.
> 2. md5sum the source
> 3. md5sum the destination.

Why not just call:

	sdd if=/dev/something bs=1m -md5 -onull

Jörg

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-06 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-05  6:39 [gentoo-user] Fast checksumming of whole partitions meino.cramer
2010-06-05  7:19 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-06-07 15:48   ` meino.cramer
2010-06-07 17:10     ` walt
2010-06-07 18:47       ` meino.cramer
2010-06-07 17:31     ` Andrea Conti
2010-06-07 18:54       ` meino.cramer
2010-06-11 22:41         ` Mick
2010-06-05  7:32 ` [gentoo-user] " Andrea Conti
2010-06-05 17:39 ` [gentoo-user] " 7v5w7go9ub0o
2010-06-05 19:23   ` meino.cramer
2010-06-05 20:11     ` Manuel Klemenz
2010-06-06 19:02       ` 7v5w7go9ub0o
2010-06-06 19:47         ` Joerg Schilling [this message]
2010-06-06 22:43           ` 7v5w7go9ub0o
2010-06-06 23:12             ` Joerg Schilling
2010-06-06 22:46         ` Neil Bothwick
2010-06-07  1:04           ` 7v5w7go9ub0o
2010-06-05 23:44     ` 7v5w7go9ub0o
2010-06-06 10:19       ` Andrea Conti
2010-06-06 16:55         ` Mick
2010-06-06 18:55         ` 7v5w7go9ub0o
2010-06-06 20:00           ` Mick
2010-06-06 20:45           ` Andrea Conti
2010-06-06 23:06             ` 7v5w7go9ub0o

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