On Fri, 2023-06-02 at 20:28 -0600, home user wrote: > I looked around for another way to check the sticks. I thought if I > put something huge on the stick, and then use diff, that would do the > job. My /home is over 22 GB. So if I re-format the stick, copy > /home to the stick, and do a "diff -r", that would test much of the > stick. But diff can't compare contents of binary files. So I looked > at cmp.
As a brute force and ignorance approach, you could copy some very large files (such as an ISO) several times to the thing, compare them against the original file. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.90.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 4 15:21:22 UTC 2023 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
