From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 24 13:08:46 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 351CF106566B for ; Mon, 24 May 2010 13:08:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03FA88FC12 for ; Mon, 24 May 2010 13:08:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn5 with SMTP id 5so3812946iwn.13 for ; Mon, 24 May 2010 06:08:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.125.167 with SMTP id y39mr4304380ibr.93.1274706525145; Mon, 24 May 2010 06:08:45 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.148.136 with HTTP; Mon, 24 May 2010 06:08:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100524073052.GA2510@current.Sisis.de> References: <76E02DE6-9A61-4D24-9638-ABB7418711D9@lafn.org> <20100524073052.GA2510@current.Sisis.de> From: Eitan Adler Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 16:08:25 +0300 Message-ID: To: Matthias Apitz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-questions - Subject: Re: Verifying a DVD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 13:08:46 -0000 > I think it isn't important how many blocks are on the DVD, but more > important that a) all files area readable on the DVD and b) are MD5 > identically with the original on the hard disk. That's why after burning > a tree of files for backup to some DVD I use a combination of > find+md5+sort+diff to verify the result. Take a look at mtree as a replacement for the first three parts ;) -- Eitan Adler