On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 01:37 +0000, Alan Dayley wrote: > * Craig White wrote on 9/17/05 12:59: > > I'm thinking that I don't entirely trust what I 'exported' from my iPod > > and want to check it against the music data from my Windows > > > > What I want to compare is the entirety of the music data - though the > > file names and folder names are different, the data within them should > > be entirely unchanged. > > I see the different file aned directory names as a difficulty here. Automated tools won't know what to compare if the names are different. > > > so I thought I could md5sum a directory tree but it only works on > > files. ;-( > > You could tar or zip the tree to checksum one file but the sums will be different because of the name changes. --- which of course means that it would be pointless to do this --- > > > The data amount should be slightly over 3 Gb in both cases... > > > > [root@srv1 home]# du -s /home/music > > 18759612 /home/music > > > > [root@srv1 home]# du -s /home/samba/profiles/craig/My\ Documents/My\ > > Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music > > > > 18776304 /home/samba/profiles/craig/My Documents/My > > Music/iTunes/iTunes Music > > > > Not the same ;-( > > This is very likely because of filesytem differences as much as anything else. ---- they are both on the same ext3 filesystem, the method which they arrived there are decidedly different which is the reason that I wish to compare them. One set was put there by Windows roaming profile (no small task), the other set exported from my ipod to an nfs mount via gtkpod ---- > > > probably indicates a problem > > > > Is there some absolute way to computer a checksum on a directory tree to > > compare the binary contents? > > I don't know a simple solution to your dilema. Someone better with scripting might have something. ---- I don't know if it's a scripting issue or a knowledge of tools issue. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss