md5 of a filesystem / verifying filesystem integrity after dump/restore operation

[Jan Grant]

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Ruben Bloemgarten wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Does someone know how to reliably run a checksum of sorts on a filesystem,
> to be able
>
> to verify filesystem integrity after a restore from dump level 0 has
> occurred?

Tripwire and its ilk live in the ports system. The base system utility,
mtree, also has this capability, although you'll have to fiddle with
its options to get it to work.


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