[gentoo-user] Fast checksumming of whole partitions

Hi, this night dd copies the contents of my first 1TB disk to my second 1TB disk (same Model). (dd if=/devsda of=/dev/sdb bs=4096) I want to verify, that the copy is identical. I tried (or: I am still trying) to checksum the first disk with whirlpooldeep /dev/sda whch seems to work

Re: [gentoo-user] Fast checksumming of whole partitions

Is there any faster and reliable way to checksum whole paritions (not on per file base)??? It depends on where your bottleneck is... If you're cpu-bound you can try with a faster hash: md5sum or even md4sum would be a good choice (collision resistance is irrelevant in this application). On