Carb0n - October 11, 2008 at 10:22 am Its always better to use the named devices than absolute devices md5sum /dev/cdrom or md5sum /dev/dvd Don’t ask me why. Something to do with device access and permissions. Reply
Baylink - December 27, 2009 at 11:07 pm And note that it’s usually a good idea to supply a blocksize with something like bs=1M (or even 10M); if you let dd use its default blocksize, you’ll be waiting around forever. Reply
Its always better to use the named devices than absolute devices
md5sum /dev/cdrom
or
md5sum /dev/dvd
Don’t ask me why. Something to do with device access and permissions.
And note that it’s usually a good idea to supply a blocksize with something like bs=1M (or even 10M); if you let dd use its default blocksize, you’ll be waiting around forever.