WARNING - Possible Data Corruption

[Les Mikesell]

bill perkins wrote:


>> I copied ("cp -a DVD data2/DVD") the 3 DVD images (27 GB) from the IDE 
>> drive to the SATA drive. After the copy, I did a "du" in the source 
>> and destination directories. All of the destination files were smaller 
>> than the source files. I checked /var/log/messages and didn't see any 
>> errors.
>>
>> At that point, I had to leave for work, so I haven't done any more 
>> investigation. When I get back home, I'll of course retry the copy.
>>
>> Anybody got any clues about what I should look for / try next?

Du shows disk blocks which might be different on different filesystems.
Look at the size as reported by 'ls -l' instead.  Or run md5sum on both 
copies and compare values.

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   Les Mikesell
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