copy old harddrive to new one

bjlockie · 02-13-2016, 08:27 AM

I copied my old drive to a new bigger drive.
I used cp -rp /storage-old/* /storage

/dev/sdd1 459G 388G 48G 90% /storage-old
/dev/sde1 917G 352G 519G 41% /storage

How do I find out what is missing?
I'm used the new /storage.

ButterflyMelissa · 02-13-2016, 09:12 AM

I'd go with the diff command

Melissa

sgosnell · 02-13-2016, 03:13 PM

Hidden files, beginning with '.'. The cp command does not copy hidden files by default. If you get rid of the *, it should copy the hidden files. But now you need to use other options, to prevent recopying all those gigabytes of files already copied. I'd use rsync instead.

bjlockie · 02-13-2016, 03:33 PM

Thanks.
I'll use rsync.

jefro · 02-13-2016, 10:20 PM

http://www.rapidtables.com/code/linux/cp.htm interesting generator and help files.