[WBEL-users] Creating ISO images from CDs

[Bernie Hoefer]

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Alfred von Campe wrote:
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> images sitting on a co-worker's computer).  But their size was slightly
> larger than the original ISOs, so of course the MD5 sums didn't match:
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> and then did a "diff -r", and there was no difference found on any of
> the three disks.  Can anyone explain how this is possible?
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     I've run into this, as well.  The CD-R has the data on it, plus
some padding.  When you md5sum the ISO file, you're hashing just its
data.  When you md5sum the CD-R, you're hashing the data and the
padding.  See these websites for info:

<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=CD+ISO+padding+md5sum>

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