On Mar 10, 2011, at 9:02 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote:

> 
> Hi All,
> 
> How ironic, with regards to all this discussion, that the original disk now 
> verifies OK.  Of course, I don't know what that means with regards to the 
> previous errors (I didn't run a Repair again after the last problematic 
> output it gave).
> 
> I am moving the data to a new disk.  In fact, I have used DU to restore from 
> the problematic partition to a partition on a new larger disk, and CCC to 
> rsync copy from the problematic partition to another partition on the new 
> disk.  Not 100% sure which one to use?

Either will work. Both will have different folder creation/modification date 
issues compared to the original.

> 
> It would be nice to be able to compare these partitions (either both new ones 
> or either new one and the old problematic one) and get some sort of summary 
> of differences (specifically with regards to data differences, not storage 
> mechanism differences).

I've used diff -qr folder1 folder2

man diff

For anything particularly important you can use md5 and get a checksum for 
comparison.


Chris Murphy

_______________________________________________
MacOSX-admin mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin

Reply via email to