1ntfscmp(1M) System Administration Commands ntfscmp(1M)
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6 ntfscmp - compare two NTFS file systems and report the differences
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9 ntfscmp [options] device1 device2
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13 The ntfscmp utility compares all aspects of two NTFS file systems and
14 reports all differences it finds. The file systems can be on block
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17 used to quickly locate, identify, and check the correctness of the
18 metadata changes made to NTFS.
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21 If one is interested only in the NTFS metadata changes, it can be use‐
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23 option of ntfsclone(1M) to eliminate the usually uninteresting time‐
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27 The terse output of ntfscmp is intentional, because the provided
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29 output can be obtained by using diff(1) to compare the verbose output
30 of ntfsinfo(1M) for each reported inode.
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33 Supported options are listed below. Options have both single-letter and
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36 -h, --help
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38 Display help and exit.
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52 The exit code is 0 on success, non-zero otherwise.
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55 See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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60 ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
61 │ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
62 ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
63 │Availability │SUNWntfsprogs │
64 ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
65 │Interface Stability │Uncommitted │
66 └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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69 diff(1), ntfscat(1M), ntfsclone(1M), ntfsinfo(1M), ntfsprogs(1M),
70 parted(1M), attributes(5)
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76 ntfscmp was written by Szabolcs Szakacsits.
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80SunOS 5.11 28 May 2009 ntfscmp(1M)