On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 22:29 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:03:45PM -0600, Jerry Williams wrote: > > Would it be possible to list the iso file size in bytes in the SHA1SUM file? > > > > The reason that I ask it is that I had a DVD with Fedora 7 on it and needed > > a copy of the iso file. So I did a dd on the DVD, but the file ended up > > being bigger than the original iso file. I had to know the size so I could > > enter the number of blocks to copy. > > > > It is much quicker to do an ls -l than it is to run sha1sum on a file. > > If the size is right then run the sha1sum. > > > > Or is the size listed on some web page some place? > > Everywhere I have looked I end up with an estimate. > > When reading a the file itself with isoinfo, it'll tell you: > > $ isoinfo -d -i F-7-x86_64-DVD.iso > ... > Logical block size is: 2048 > Volume size is: 1683582 > ... 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. Jon. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
