Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:12:58 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cksum entire dir?? Message-ID: <201209120912.58165.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <50502C51.5020601@FreeBSD.org> References: <20120911213804.GA9817@ethic.thought.org> <20120912011443.5df17cf2.freebsd@edvax.de> <50502C51.5020601@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wednesday 12 September 2012 08:31:45 Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 12/09/2012 00:14, Polytropon wrote: > > % cksum <directory> [snip] > > That will give you a checksum on the directory inode -- file names and > associated metadata only, not file content. [snip] > Generally I find the best test for differences between old and new > copies of a filesystem is 'rsync -avx -n ...' Wouldn't suitable applications of mtree(8) also do what's wanted? Jonathan
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