From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OLLpb-0002Gn-Gz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:48:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8BB3E0B47; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 19:47:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay03-haj2.antispameurope.com (relay03-haj2.antispameurope.com [83.246.65.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CBC8E0B47 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 19:47:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by relay03-haj2.antispameurope.com (ASE-Secure-MTA, from userid 1000) id 4C68B63C098; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 21:47:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pluto.fokus.fraunhofer.de (pluto.fokus.fraunhofer.de [195.37.77.164]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay03-haj2.antispameurope.com (ASE-Secure-MTA) with ESMTP id D77FE63C094 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 21:47:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from EXCHSRV.fokus.fraunhofer.de (bohr.fokus.fraunhofer.de [10.147.9.231]) by pluto.fokus.fraunhofer.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id o56Jleks029441 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 21:47:40 +0200 (MEST) Received: from rigel ([10.147.65.195]) by EXCHSRV.fokus.fraunhofer.de with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sun, 6 Jun 2010 21:47:39 +0200 Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:47:39 +0200 From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions Message-ID: <4c0bfb5b.n0CegtEEVhvy3JzX%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <20100605063956.GA5125@solfire> <4C0A8BC5.9040305@gmail.com> <20100605192331.GA11007@solfire> <201006052211.59256.m.klemenz@gmx.at> <4C0BF0B2.3080604@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C0BF0B2.3080604@gmail.com> User-Agent: nail 11.22 3/20/05 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Jun 2010 19:47:39.0949 (UTC) FILETIME=[1F1C4DD0:01CB05B1] Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 37f52b2f-70db-4ce6-a34b-44ba585e475b X-Archives-Hash: 4247f8222398281b24a0f01298948de2 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=3D/dev/something bs=3D1m -md5 -onull J=F6rg --=20 EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J=F6rg Schilling D-13353 = Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) =20 joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blo= gspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schil= y