[lug] Interface CRC error on USB connected SATA drive

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 20:12:33 -0600
Chris Riddoch wrote:

> I wish I'd noticed this thread sooner...
> 
> There's a program I use called 'hashdeep' which is meant to help you
> verify file hashes recursively into directories...
> 
> https://github.com/jessek/hashdeep/

Ah, cool.
$ apt-cache search md5deep
md5deep - Recursively compute hashsums or piecewise hashings

And a web search on it reveals other similar tools.
 
> If you're just wanting to validate that the metadata is the same, I
> think maybe rsync could help with that somehow?

At this point, I'm at the end of the exercise, but I'll ponder on that
one too. Might be some way to get it to do something like a dummy run,
showing what a sync would look like, which could expose things.

Of course, if it's useful, someone already wrote it. But of course what's
cool about Linux is we can roll our own using existing tools too.