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Re: diff -r won't recurse
- From: "lemkemch at t-online dot de" <lemkemch at t-online dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 20:29:40 +0200
- Subject: Re: diff -r won't recurse
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- Reply-to: "lemkemch at t-online dot de" <lemkemch at t-online dot de>
>On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 20:09:56 +0200 I wrote:
>On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 16:50:09 +0200 Andrey Repin wrote:
>>> I've got a strange problem: diff -r /d /g won't recurse into the two directories. /d and /g are the
>>> roots of two disks where /g is a clone (disk2vhd) of /d. ls -R and other tools have no problems
>>> to walk the tree. strace doesn't give me a clue. Any ideas?
>>
>>Try /d/ /g/ ?
>>Cygdrive automounts are implicit.
>>Though, I'm unable to reproduce your case.
>>
>>$ ls -l /?
>>ls: cannot access /?: No such file or directory
>>
>>$ diff -r /w /x
>>Only in /w: $RECYCLE.BIN
>>Only in /x: OS2
>>Only in /w: ssh-1Pr6UITz
>>Only in /w: System Volume Information
>>Only in /x: WINNT
>>
>
>Yes, that's what I expected. And Erwin Waterlander suggested:
>> there are no differences
>> ;)
>
>I wish it were so. Nevertheless (-s lists identical files):
>orion> diff -q -r -s /d/Program\ Files /g/Program\ Files
>orion>
>
>But
>orion> ls /d/Program\ Files /g/Program\ Files
>/d/Program Files:
>7-Zip GPS-Track-Analyse-6 PlotSoft
>... snipped.
>
>/g/Program Files:
>7-Zip GPS-Track-Analyse-6 PlotSoft
>... more snipped.
>
>I am sure this got something to do with this being on a cloned disk running in a XP
>virtual machine (vmplayer on Win 8,1).
>
Clutching at straws (note the identical serial number, does it confuse Cygwin?):
orion> /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo.exe /g
Device Type : 7
Characteristics : 20
Volume Name : <ND D (HDD)>
Serial Number : 3357258338
Max Filenamelength : 255
Filesystemname : <NTFS>
Flags : 700ff
FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH : TRUE
FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES : TRUE
FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK : TRUE
FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS : TRUE
FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION : TRUE
FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS : TRUE
FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES : TRUE
FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: TRUE
FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE
FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED : FALSE
FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS : TRUE
FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION : TRUE
FILE_NAMED_STREAMS : TRUE
FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME : FALSE
FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE : FALSE
FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS : FALSE
orion> /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo.exe /d
Device Type : 7
Characteristics : 20
Volume Name : <ND D (HDD)>
Serial Number : 3357258338
Max Filenamelength : 255
Filesystemname : <NTFS>
Flags : 700ff
FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH : TRUE
FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES : TRUE
FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK : TRUE
FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS : TRUE
FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION : TRUE
FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS : TRUE
FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES : TRUE
FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: TRUE
FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE
FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED : FALSE
FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS : TRUE
FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION : TRUE
FILE_NAMED_STREAMS : TRUE
FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME : FALSE
FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE : FALSE
FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS : FALSE
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