On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 09:54 -0800, John Wendel wrote:
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>
> I copied ("cp -a DVD data2/DVD") the 3 DVD images (27 GB) from the IDE
> drive to the SATA drive. After the copy, I did a "du" in the source
> and destination directories. All of the destination files were smaller
> than the source files. I checked /var/log/messages and didn't see any
> errors.
It might be the different block size.
Try running:
$ tune2fs -l /dev/<source partition> | grep "Block size"
$ tune2fs -l /dev/<destination partition> | grep "Block size"
Either way, I'd suggest you run md5sum on both the source file and the
destination file to be certain.
- Gilboa
