Re: [Linux-users] File system query

On Tue 01 Mar 2016 20:53:17 NZDT +1300, Barry wrote: > The Ext3 fs is on an internal HD, the dos FS is on a usb drive for > the purposes of compatability with an inferior box running an > inferior system. I have now run rsync in test mode between the major > directories and it returned no errors

Re: [Linux-users] File system query

Thank you Jim, Derek and Helmut for your replies. I thought the file systems may be the problem which I was not clear about. The Ext3 fs is on an internal HD, the dos FS is on a usb drive for the purposes of compatability with an inferior box running an inferior system. I have now run rsync

Re: [Linux-users] File system query

Hi, tools like rsync are actually pretty good. googling reports: As for the verification itself, for protocol 30 and beyond (first supported in 3.0.0), rsync usesMD5 . For older protocols, the checksum used isMD4 . So.

Re: [Linux-users] File system query

On 1/03/2016 3:13 p.m., Barry wrote: Probably a very basic question but it has me puzzled I have copied a directory with a dozen or so subdirectories and 4000+ files from an Ext3 filesystem to a Dos (fat32) filesystem on another drive. I then checked the properties of each and found that

Re: [Linux-users] File system query

There is a difference between the length of a file, and the amount of space that it takes up on disk. Disk space is allocated in chunks (units called clusters or blocks, depending on who you are talking to), and on each filesystem these are often different sizes. If you are working on a

Re: [Linux-users] File system query

Hi, Is it because the dos destination is a flash disk, and the OS is buffering writes to the flash disk. However, the OS is reporting the size currently on disk, not the the actual file size. md5sum - did it report a difference? Cheers, Derek. On 01/03/16 15:13, Barry wrote: Probably a