| I've found that md5sum does a pretty exhaustive scan through a file
| and it'll find CD write errors. I don't know if it actually searches
| every byte / block though.
It *does* search every byte of every file. One may safely assume that
if two files md5sums the same, they're equal.
> But I would make one recommendation, in spite of your saying that
> minor errors don't matter in text files. I don't put any ordinary
> files on zip disks at all. Everything is zipped. That way, you can
> type something like for z in /zip/*zip; do unzip -t $z; done
> and check they're all ok
Quoting Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I use an Iomega ZIP 100 as a backup. I find that I frequently get
> cryptic error messages of various kinds while copying stuff to it.
> However, the actual files seem to get copied nevertheless; I'm not sure
> if they are perfect but as they are pret
Hello,
I use an Iomega ZIP 100 as a backup. I find that I frequently get
cryptic error messages of various kinds while copying stuff to it.
Is anyone else using this same system, and do they find something
similar?
I use an IOMEGA Zip-100 under linux also. I have not seen any
error messag
> I use an Iomega ZIP 100 as a backup. I find that I frequently get
> cryptic error messages of various kinds while copying stuff to it.
> However, the actual files seem to get copied nevertheless; I'm not sure
> if they are perfect but as they are pretty well all text files a few
> minor errors w
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