@Marc2 Probably yes and noā¦ and it depends on when you do the checksumā¦
If you are using FOGās early hostname change, then a simple changing of the name on the OS disk would totally change the checksum. Booting the computers before the comparison is likely to totally change the checksum. The checksum must be done before namechange and before boot.
This means youād have to either schedule a shutdown after imaging and then boot to a linux live CD and do the checksum test, or, do a debug deployment and cancel the process right at the early host name change point and manually do the checksum during debug (which has very limited commands and youād probably need to install some utilities right then and there) and then proceed to manually finish the imaging process via command line.
I found this post on another site:
But it depends on the layer you define āsameā
For this answer I assume
/dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1 are the ones you want to compare
both partitions are not mounted
if they are mounted, you have the permission to read each file
You can test the two partitions on blocklevel.
ie:
Code:
md5sum /dev/sdb1
md5sum /dev/sdc1
But for this to produce the same hash, the partitons have to be exactly the same.
Even the slightest change in one of the files in either of the two,
will produce a different hash.
You can also test on filelevel.
There are probably already tools, that could be used for your purposes (tripwire maybe?),
but a quick-and-dirty solution can be this:
Code:
mkdir ~/comparedir
sudo mkdir /mnt/test_sdb1
sudo mkdir /mnt/test_sdc1
sudo mount -o ro /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test_sdb1
sudo mount -o ro /dev/sdc1 /mnt/test_sdc1
find -type f /mnt/test_sdb1 -exec md5sum {} 2>/dev/null \; >~/comparedir/tmp_sdb1_hashes
find -type f /mnt/test_sdc1 -exec md5sum {} 2>/dev/null \; >~/comparedir/tmp_sdc1_hashes
sudo umount /mnt/test_sdb1
sudo umount /mnt/test_sdc1
sudo rm -r /mnt/test_sdb1
sudo rm -r /mnt/test_sdb1
sort -k2 ~/comparedir/tmp_sdb1_hashes > ~/comparedir/sdb1_hashes
sort -k2 ~/comparedir/tmp_sdc1_hashes > ~/comparedir/sdc1_hashes
rm ~/comparedir/tmp_sdb1_hashes ~/comparedir/tmp_sdc1_hashes
diff ~/comparedir/sdb1_hashes ~/comparedir/sdc1_hashes
Source: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/miscellaneous/158910-can-i-compare-two-partitions.html
