[clug] Comparing machines

[Alex Satrapa]

On 3 Aug 2004, at 23:05, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have two machines which should be almost but not quite identical.
> What I would like to do is have some kind of diff between the two.

Mount one machine's "root" filesystem as /mnt/machine1 on a Knoppix CD, 
rsync/scp/tarball/cdimage the other into /mnt/machine2, then do a diff 
-ur on the resulting file systems?

This way you get to compare "inactive" (or sessile?) file systems.

Alex Satrapa                               LPO 5010
Software Engineer               Canberra University
Mobile: +61 4 0770 5332            Bruce, ACT, 2617
ICQ:5691434                Jabber:Bunyip at jabber.com
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: PGP.sig
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 194 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux/attachments/20040804/5e14b61f/PGP.bin