* Craig White <
craigwhite@azapple.com> 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.
> 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.
> 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.
Alan
---------------------------------------------------
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
(text/plain)