md5sum of a ISO CD

md5sum /your/path/file.iso /dev/cdrom

This will give the md5sum of the iso file and then read the cd itself to
get the md5sum. If the burn worked perfectly then these two will be the
same.

Eric


On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Carl Parrish wrote:

> How do you get the md5sum of an ISO CD? I just burned a CD and want to
> compare the md5sum against the image I have on disk. If I type in md5sum
> dir/ though of course that doesn't work and if I try dir/* it just
> gives me the sums of each file on the disk but not the whole thing.
>
> BTW I *just* found out that cdrecord is a command line burning tool. I
> *LOVE* it.
>
> Carl P.

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