Strange corruption (?) problem

Markus Peuhkuri puhuri at iki.fi
Mon Aug 8 12:57:59 UTC 2005


Professor Stafylopaths wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I seem to have a strange problem with an ext3 fs partition.
>Whenever I transfer several files to this partition and compare
>the md5 and sha1 sums with the originals don't match. Seems like
>  
>
I would first suspect memory problem.  Run memtest86 to check your
system.  I had few years ago similar problem as I transfered lots of
files (that time large 18 GB disk).  Luckyly, before deleting original
files checked those with 'gzip -t' that failed...





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