[[!comment format=mdwn username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmBUR4O9mofxVbpb8JV9mEbVfIYv670uJo" nickname="Justin" subject="comment 5" date="2013-01-14T21:57:30Z" content=""" If you have both the corrupted file and the good file you can use the `cmp` command to show exactly how they differ: cmp -l file1 file2 If files are regularly marked as corrupted you might have bad ram. """]]