ISO file size in bytes?
Matt Domsch
Matt_Domsch at dell.com
Thu Oct 25 03:56:00 UTC 2007
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 11:44:08PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
>
> Right, but I think what he's saying is that he *didn't* have the ISO
> file to hand - but did have a DVD he could dd from - and he wanted a way
> to find out how big the image should have been without downloading it.
Go to bed Jon, you didn't read far enough. :-) You would have seen
the appended script do:
BLOCKS=`isoinfo -d -i ${DEVICE} | grep "Volume size" | awk '{print $4}'`
dd if=${DEVICE} of=${FILENAME} bs=2k count=${BLOCKS}
where DEVICE=/dev/cdrom or whatever device had the media.
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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
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