MD5 has been mostly broken for the better part of a decade. I use sha512 but that might be broken too now for all I know. On Dec 10, 2013 1:23 AM, "King Beowulf" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/09/2013 11:11 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 21:51:14 -0800 > > Dick Steffens <[email protected]> dijo: > > > >> On 12/09/2013 09:32 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >>> I have been configuring my new System76 Bonobo Extreme computer. In > >>> the process I have moved all the distro ISOs that I keep for the > >>> Clinic. To be sure that I have all of them properly moved to the new > >>> computer I right clicked on each folder to check its properties, > >>> which tells me how many files and the total size of the folder. For > >>> some reason the files appear to have grown during the move: > >>> > >>> Old New > >>> Debian 10.9GB 11.7GB > >>> DSL 49.9MB 52.3MB > >>> Fedora 15.7GB 16.8GB > >>> Knoppix 701MB 735MB > >>> Mint 9.2GB 9.9GB > >>> Puppy 156MB 163.7MB > >>> Ubuntu 52.2GB 56.0GB > >>> > >>> I find this very strange. Does anyone have any idea why this should > >>> be? > >> > >> I may be totally in left field, but I have a recollection about block > >> sizes being somewhat arbitrary from one distro to another. Could that > >> account for the difference? > > > > It's a good theory. The old computer had a 320 GB hard disk and the new > > one has a 1 TB hard disk. I suppose it's possible that they have > > different block sizes. > > The file size reported will depend on hard drive format (ext2/3/4 etc), > number of partitions, sector/block/inode size chosen. Most of us will > just select the defaults when formatting, so for your drives > sector/block/inodes sizes can be different. > > Rather than file sizes, use md5sum on the data to help verify a proper > copy. > > -Ed > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
