On 6/1/23 3:38 PM, George N. White III wrote:
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 5:05 PM home user <mattisonw@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mattisonw@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: [... snip ...] The crooks copy name-brand packaging. Bogus USB drives can be introduced anywhere in the supply chain, so the problem is usually discovered only when it refuses to hold advertised capacity. Some reports say they silently discard data past the physical capacity and fill reads with garbage, so casually transferring a large file will appear to work until you actually check the contents. [... snip ...] USB3 uses frequencies higher than USB2, so other devices can be affected by poor shielding at the ports, and kinked cables or excessively long leads connecting port to system board cause deterioration of the signals. Are both ports soldered neatly to the system board with short leads? Consider adding a USBC card to an older desktop.
I do not the resources to give the tower that kind of physical. I have no idea how to compare the one iso file to the several directories and files on the stick. I looked around for another way to check the sticks. I thought if I put something huge on the stick, and then use diff, that would do the job. My /home is over 22 GB. So if I re-format the stick, copy /home to the stick, and do a "diff -r", that would test much of the stick. But diff can't compare contents of binary files. So I looked at cmp. That does not have a recursive option. I have not been able to find any other commands to do a recursive binary compare. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
