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On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 09:50:55 +1100 |
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Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi All. I'm looking for some suggestions. Setup is Gentoo host running |
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> VMWare workstation 8 with two guests which are loosely based on RHEL. |
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> I'm checking to see if patch installation order in the guests has any |
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> effect. Not all the patches are rpm based, so I want to check to see |
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> if there are any differences in the file content between the guests. |
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> This (find / -type f -exec md5sum {} + > /sumoutput.txt) hangs after |
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> about 11000 files. I could troubleshoot it, but is there something |
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> more elegant? Something to mount the guest filesystem in gentoo? |
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The command you are running is over-reaching. You didn't say which file |
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the command stops at, but I'll bet it is something in /proc or /sys, |
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places where you really shouldn't be md5summing anyway. |
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You are doing an update, the places you should be checking are more |
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likely /etc, /bin, /sbin, /lib, /opt, /usr and the like. |
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Rather use find with the -xdev option, and repeat for each on-disk |
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file-system. |
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If the host has much more resources than the guest, enough more to make |
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running md5sum on the host a viable proposition, then the easiest would |
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be for the guest to export it's filesystem over nfs to the host. |
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It is possible to loop-mount the guest vmdk file to the host, but a |
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quick google shows that this can get quite involved. NFS can be set |
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up and running in a few minutes. |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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