ntfscmp(8)

1NTFSCMP(8)                  System Manager's Manual                 NTFSCMP(8)
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NAME

6       ntfscmp - compare two NTFS filesystems and tell the differences
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SYNOPSIS

9       ntfscmp [OPTIONS] DEVICE1 DEVICE2
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DESCRIPTION

12       The  ntfscmp  program  makes  a comparison between two NTFS filesystems
13       from all aspects and reports all variances it finds.   The  filesystems
14       can be on block devices or images files. Ntfscmp can be used for volume
15       verification however its primary purpose was to be an efficient  devel‐
16       opment tool, used to quickly locate, identify and check the correctness
17       of the metadata changes made to NTFS.
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19       If one is interested only in the NTFS metadata changes then it could be
20       useful  to  compare the metadata images created by using the --metadata
21       option of ntfsclone(8) to eliminate the usually uninteresting timestamp
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24       The  terse output of ntfscmp is intentional because the provided infor‐
25       mation is enough in each case to determine the exact differences.  This
26       can  be  achieved, for instance, if one compares the verbose outputs of
27       ntfsinfo(8) for each reported inodes by the diff(1) utility.
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OPTIONS

30       Below is a summary of the options that ntfscmp accepts.
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32       -P, --no-progress-bar
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38       -h, --help
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EXIT CODES

42       The exit code is 0 on success, non-zero otherwise.
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KNOWN ISSUES

45       No problem is known. If you would find otherwise then please send  your
46       report to the development team: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
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AUTHOR

49       ntfscmp was written by Szabolcs Szakacsits (szaka@sienet.hu).
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AVAILABILITY

52       ntfscmp is part of the ntfsprogs package and is available from:
53       http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/19/37
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55       The manual pages are available online at:
56       http://man.linux-ntfs.org/
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