Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

[thib <thib@stammed.net>]

Clive McBarton wrote:
> The "online to offline" comparison has value, just the "offline to
> online" comparison does not. More precisely: You never know if any
> checksums taken on a running system are reported correctly. But: If you
> take an online system (powered up), take checksums of important files or
> partitions, and they are the same after the system later becomes offline
> (powered down), then they were reported correctly to begin with. Whereas
> if they were correct before running it and are then are reported correct
> while the system is running, it does not tell you anything.

Oh yep, I stand corrected.

> > Would you care to share your solution, Clive?
>
> Currently I take checksums of the partition regularly during operation
> and while the system is turned off. The "online to offline" comparison
> works fine, whereas the "offline to online" does not always work, hence
> this thread.

Just curious actually;  do you use a simple live CD, a USB device, bootstrap 
via a secure network (PXE?), or..?  Do you know of/use some targetted 
software/efforts to do that or did you hack something together?


To get back on the original topic, do you plan to forward the discussion to 
an extfs specific list (or somewhere else)?  I think d-user@ is stuck at 
this point.  I'm asking because I'm interested, too.

-thib