How to verify the integrity after copying the /home to a new drive?

Hi,

i just copied my home to another drive following this guide Moving /home to second hdd
Because I was scared, I used

cp -rp /home/* /mnt/ && sync

and renamed the original userhome to _bak afterward.

So far everything seems to be working, but is there a quick way to be sure everything was copied correctly?

Alex

diff -r /oldhome /newhome
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You could compare the file and/or directory sizes with du. Or for a more thorough but very time- and energy-consuming examination, you could use diff. :arrow_down:

man du
man diff

:wink:

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of course…stupid me :wink:

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When using rsync instead of cp, the diff is already included (if you use checksums) :wink:

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