Hi Jeremy, Thanks for your time & suggestions. Now I at least have some lead. Johan *********************** On Monday 12 January 2004 00:04, Jeremy Lin wrote: > * On Jan 11, 2004 at 09:45:14, Johan wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there a sure way to test 2 cd's if they are true copies in > > rsync. I have tried this... > > rsync -avv /mnt/cdrom/ /mnt/cdrom2 > > ** > > result....quite shotened... > > I'm not really qualified to claim with any certainty whether rsync > can be used reliably for this purpose, but you'd probably at least > want to use -n somewhere, since if there is indeed a mismatch > somewhere, you're asking rsync to update that file, and I suspect > it'll probably bomb out once it finds it can't write to the cd-rom. > Then you wouldn't find out about mismatches that come later. Also, I > guess you'd probably want -c so checksums are always computed. > > Probably more practical is to use something like > > $ cd /mnt/cdrom; find . -type f | sort | xargs md5sum > /tmp/sum1 > $ cd /mnt/cdrom2; find . -type f | sort | xargs md5sum > /tmp/sum2 > $ diff sum1 sum2 > > This will miss things like empty directories and things that aren't > regular files (like, say, symlinks). Also, it'll probably have > trouble with filenames that contain whitespace. But with some more > effort (and complication), you can get around most of the important > problems. > > Hope that helps. > > -Jeremy
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