When I burnt data (or anything else) to a DVD or CD in windows, the burning program offered the option of verifying that the copy was exact after the burning was done. I presume that it compared the MD5s (etc) of the copy and the original to check that they were the same.

What Linux disk burning program can do this please? I have not been able to find one.

It is dissatisfying to burn something to disk, and then not be sure if it is an exact copy or not. I have in the past had instances where the copy was not exact, particularly when not copied at a slow speed.

Thanks.

k3b for one

K3B has a setting to verify the disk write. It's under one of the tabs--I forget which one--that opens when you click to "Burn Disk," K3B in in your repos.

Brasero to have a similar setting (they it "Check Disk Integrity").

When you tell K3b to burn files or disc images to DVD, etc you will see a dialog box like the one below. And you can select the option to verify the files/disc image there.

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man md5sum
man shasum

From a data CD I had laying around.

Check optical disk checksum:
.iso checksum:

You could probably use cmp too.

# cmp image.iso /dev/sr0

But I've never done it that way. At the end of the day you don't really care what the md5sum is, you only care that the data matches. Although cmp might be the slower / slowest option since it does a byte by byte comparison.

@teckk: That method will probably fail without specifying a count for dd. (The md5sum of the whole of the optical medium will usually never match the original iso.)

K3B it is then, although it's not as easy to use as some other burners.