I'm in the process of upgrading my file server and I'm currently transferring all my files onto an external hard drive.I'm using cp -av to do the copy. After that's done it would be nice to ...

Checksum [via Wikipedia.org]<BR><BR>Essentially, a checksum is a marker that allows you to determine the integrity of a file or piece of data in some context.<BR><BR>For example, if you have a ...

When a checksum calculation is performed on information, such as a file or message, a distinct value is generated that represents its contents.