Re: /boot partition changes when it should not
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thib wrote:
>>> 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?
Any boot medium like CD or USB works, it does not matter which. Network
might work but is more hassle (extra server needed) and less secure,
since that boot server might be vulnerable the same way as the machine
it's supposed to check.
I know of no software that does what I want, so I just take checksums
with md5sum manually and write the result on paper somewhate. That's
low-tech, slow, time-consuming, but very robust.
There may be software out there but I don't know of any, particularly
such that can check partitions, just software that merely checks files.
> 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.
I'm pretty sure now that the last mont time and last modify time are
what I see changing. Hence this is no longer an ext3 issue that I could
discuss on an extfs list. On the contrary, if there is an fs that does
not change on boot, I'd use it. Maybe your beloved xfs, thib?
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