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Old 01-22-2010, 08:02 AM   #1
tirengarfio
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Can i compare two partitions?

hi,

i have two partitions and i would like to compare them to see it they are the same.

Is that possible?

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Javi
 
Old 01-22-2010, 08:07 AM   #2
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what do you mean by same?

0if you wan to do a bit for bit comperation, use diff. if you want to find if there are different or not, use md5sum or sha1sum.
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