OK, point taken. Your plan sounds like a good one. sas
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:02 AM, Peter Hunkeler <p...@gmx.ch> wrote: > > >On 2016-12-21 15:39, Steve Smith wrote: > > Or leave off the -r. > > > The subject sais "root file system" not "root directoy", so I assume the > OP wants to compare everything, i.e. the compare needs to dive into > subdirectories, but stop at the files system boundary not traversing mount > points. > > > diff does not seem to have an option to tell it not to cross mount points > find has one (I think): -xdev. But again, the diff called for each entry > would see directories an not stop at file system boundary. And you would > need to do the find twice, once from each root to also detect missing files > or directories in one of them. > > > I think you best bet would be to make a clone of the current root file > system, the mount both on seperate temporary directories in, say /tmp. You > can the simply diff -r. > As for the cloning, I would do A DFDSS COPY of the current root file > system *data set*. This will guarantee the clone contains just anything > that is in the root and only what is in the root. > > -- > Peter Hunkeler > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- sas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
