[TriLUG] how-to create md5 checksums & CD/DVD verification

[Jon Carnes]

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 09:20, Douglas Kojetin wrote:
> Hi All-
> 
> I've googled this a bit, but could not find any decent references 
> (other than 'info md5') to help out.  I'd like to create md5 checksum's 
> for data iso's I'm going to create so I can 'verify' the burns were 
> successful/data = A-OK. Also, in general, is this a good way of 
> checking/verifying/validating data CDs and DVDs?

md5sum <filename>

It is the standard for verification, but how good it is... That's a
debatable point.

Take care - Jon Carnes