SUMMARY: diff two filesystems ?

Sorry for the very late summary. I got too many answer to list here,
thanks to all of you.

The main suggestions were to use GNU diff, dircmp, tripwire or rdist.

tripwire is a bit heavyweight for the job, but sure is able to do it.
dircmp works great for small directories, but takes forever and end up
dying for huge number of files. GNU diff gave an output much too verbose.
I didn't try rdist because I didn't have the time to learn yet another
tool, as so finally used tripwire.

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Christophe Dupre wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm looking for a tool to compare two filesystems. For example, let's say
> that I have a mirrored filesystem, and I want to install a software. I
> first break the mirror then install the new software. Then I umount the
> filesystem. I then have two filesystems : one before the installation, one
> after. I'd like to make a diff of them, to see what files were added /
> modified by the software installation.
>
> Is there anyone with a tool / script to do that ? I was hinted last week
> at LISA'01 by one of Sun's rep there that Sun had an internal tool to do
> such a thing, but lost the reference. :-(
>
>
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY        USA
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