Tuesday, August 09, 2005

What the diff, yo? diff on Linux is quite nice.  In the attempt to determine what files may have been missed during this weekend's upgrade, I needed to find a way to figure out what files were missing on the destination volume.  In the past, Rsync for NetWare has been quite nice in this effort.  The log file I created, however, was incredibly useless to me in determining what might have been missing on the new volume.  Come to find out that diff is quite handy, as it will not just tell me the difference between two files, but it will also tell me the difference between directories.  And this was made easier by being able to login and map drives via the Novell Client for Linux.  I logged in, and I mapped two drives to the old and new volume, respectively.  I then dropped to a console and entered the command diff -ir I H >diff.log. As I write this, it is churning away on the difference between the old and new volumes.  It is taking longer than I expected, but I will gladly endure that for a much clearer definition of what is different between the new and old volumes. UPDATE: Damn Novell Client for Linux just barfed on me.  Looks like I get to start over, and see how long it takes this time around.  2:49:12 PM    comment []  trackback []