If the **primary** and **secondary** nodes have a checksum verification mismatch, the cause may not be apparent. To find the cause of a checksum mismatch:
1. Navigate to the **Admin Area > Projects** dashboard on the **primary** node, find the
project that you want to check the checksum differences and click on the
1. Navigate to the project's repository directory on both **primary** and **secondary** nodes. For an installation from source, the path is usually `/home/git/repositories`. For Omnibus installs, the path is usually `/var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories`. Note that if `git_data_dirs` is customized, check the directory layout on your server to be sure.
```sh
cd /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories
```
1. Run the following command on the **primary** node, redirecting the output to a file: