[ale] Diff the whole file system?

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Fri Mar 23 09:10:20 EDT 2012


I have a situation where I'm being forced to allow a remote installer
to have root level sudo access to install their company's product
(don't like it, but it's out of my hands). Technically, I have the
system setup such that they should not need such access, but I can't
change the monkey's script. Anyway, I'd like to be able to sort of
"snapshot" my file system before I let them in so that I can go back
and look at a before and after difference. Do any of you know of such
a tool? Could this be done with rsync?

I've read that LVM supports snapshots at the block level. Seeing as
they are block level snapshots I don't see how that will help me
figure out what the installer changed. I'd be able to revert the
changes, but not study them.

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James Sumners
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pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

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