Clive McBarton wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:Never destroy the original until you know the copy works!In my earlier days I would have avoided mv for exactly that reason. But when copying (including rsync), you cannot easily see that it worked from the emptyness of the original file system. And comparing large filesystem trees (not just 4GB as in this case) is trickier than most people realize. At least a simple "diff -r" will be far from doing it. Maybe you have some good way of comparing FS trees? [snip]
Including rsync? I'd say that's the exact purpose of rsync.Anyway, there are many filesystem comparison tools if one wants to do it "manually", like dirdiff. For file contents, just hash and re-hash.
-thib