Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:06:51 +0200 From: Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: md5 of a filesystem / verifying filesystem integrity after Message-ID: <40D98E7B.7090602@elvandar.org> In-Reply-To: <20040623100439.5702d9a7.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <E1Bd7cM-000NAA-00@post-21.mail.nl.demon.net> <200406231342.i5NDg6g18473@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20040623100439.5702d9a7.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Bill Moran wrote: > Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote: > >>>Hi all, >>> >>>Does someone know how to reliably run a checksum of sorts on a filesystem, >>>to be able >>> >>>to verify filesystem integrity after a restore from dump level 0 has >>>occurred? > > > <snip the potential problems with dump/md5> > > Could you use something like tripwire (which does an md5 of each file on the > filesystem and stores them in a database for later verification)? > > I think tripwire only checks executable files, but the approach should work > with all files. > Hey Bill, Jerry, You can also use AIDE for that... :-) and indeed tripwire -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |remko@elvandar.org Reporter DSINet |remko@dsinet.org Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |remko@mostly-harmless.nl
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