> From: Dave Dittrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 15:15:18 -0700 (PDT)
>
> I recently submitted some suggested changes to "dd" to add MD5
> checksumming to (I think) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, but never heard
> back from anyone.
I didn't see it. (Hmm, I just briefly looked for it in Google Groups
and didn't find it there either. They've been chaotic lately though.)
Perhaps you might resend it to bug-fileutils. I'd like to see an
explanation of why this feature is needed in dd. You can already do
something like the following to calculate checksums of part of your disks:
dd ibs=1024 if=/dev/hda1 count=1 | md5sum
and it's not immediately clear to me why the checksumming feature
needs to be part of "dd" proper.
(This uses the "md5sum" command that is part of textutils.)
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