What am I missing here? (sha256sum)

Tom Horsley horsley1953 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 21 16:44:12 UTC 2010


On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:33:19 +0200
Michael Schwendt wrote:

> > Right, so why does sha256sum -c tell me it doesn't match?  
> 
> What does it say when you add option -w?

With -w it doesn't complain, but now it is even more worrisome.
It is saying the checksum matches now. It is like the first
run got bad data when it read the file, but now it is getting
good data.

I'll have to run some smart diagnostics... (or submit bugs
about unreliable ext3 in fedora 13 :-).


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