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From: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@freebsd.org>
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> Is your reply from personal experience, or is it the same "Hey, it
> could..." as is my question? If the former, would you elaborate on the
> implementation details?

I use:

mtree -K sha1digest -c -X mtree.exclude -p / > mtree.out

where mtree.exclude is:

./home
./mnt
./proc
./tmp
./var/account
./var/backups
./var/db
./var/imap
./var/lock
./var/log
./var/mail
./var/run
./var/spool
./var/tmp

Although I am sure there is a better way to do it with mtree, to
see if something has changed, I repeat the process and diff the
output.