I am curious if anyone can clear up the following phenomena
for gnu tar on testing:
# tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25
Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
see the file named COPYING for details.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
basically I have cdrom mounted under a directory
and i ran
tar zcvf win2k.tgz /mnt
and
tar zcvf win2k-2.tgz /mnt
Perhaps I should be using different options to get the
same files:
# cmp -version
cmp - GNU diffutils version 2.7
cmp -l on the files yields:
# cmp -l *
5 35 362
6 4 2
I also did a dd on the raw device and that at least gave no differences.
I am trying to determine whether the cdrom drive is faulty. Does anyone know
of good ways to test such a thing.
-walter
