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On 09/12/12 08:12, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
>> 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?

TIMTOWTDI.

	Cheers,

	Matthew