XunilXunil
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Hi,
I'm looking for a way to binary compare two large 3TB disk image files in the terminal, preferably as quickly as possible and with some kind of feedback with regard to progress.
I have done some searching online with this regard but everything I have tried has not worked for one reason or another.
I tried using cmp -l in conjunction with pv. The comparison process seemed to end prematurely when the disks involved went to sleep after about 7 hours... which was not encouraging. The terminal thought it was still executing this operation, however. I also couldn't get pv to give me anything useful other than the amount of time passed (which I could have got from a clock... lol) and a progress bar that didn't move. I'm quite new to linux so perhaps I am doing the whole pv syntax wrong... not sure. I used pv -p -e -t | before the cmp command. I'm going to go ahead an guess that's wrong
I have tried wxHexEditor... this also crashed before finishing.
I really need to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thankyou in advance.
I'm looking for a way to binary compare two large 3TB disk image files in the terminal, preferably as quickly as possible and with some kind of feedback with regard to progress.
I have done some searching online with this regard but everything I have tried has not worked for one reason or another.
I tried using cmp -l in conjunction with pv. The comparison process seemed to end prematurely when the disks involved went to sleep after about 7 hours... which was not encouraging. The terminal thought it was still executing this operation, however. I also couldn't get pv to give me anything useful other than the amount of time passed (which I could have got from a clock... lol) and a progress bar that didn't move. I'm quite new to linux so perhaps I am doing the whole pv syntax wrong... not sure. I used pv -p -e -t | before the cmp command. I'm going to go ahead an guess that's wrong
I have tried wxHexEditor... this also crashed before finishing.
I really need to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thankyou in advance.