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

[AlexBoldt]

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

[Tomek]

diff -r /oldhome /newhome

[Aragorn]

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.

man du
man diff

[AlexBoldt]

of course…stupid me

[andreas85]

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