ntfscmp

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

NAME
       ntfscmp - compare two NTFS filesystems and tell the differences

SYNOPSIS
       ntfscmp [OPTIONS] DEVICE1 DEVICE2

DESCRIPTION
       The  ntfscmp  program  makes  a comparison between two NTFS filesystems
       from all aspects and reports all variances it finds.   The  filesystems
       can be on block devices or images files. Ntfscmp can be used for volume
       verification however its primary purpose was to be an efficient  devel-
       opment tool, used to quickly locate, identify and check the correctness
       of the metadata changes made to NTFS.

       If one is interested only in the NTFS metadata changes then it could be
       useful  to  compare the metadata images created by using the --metadata
       option of ntfsclone(8) to eliminate the usually uninteresting timestamp
       changes.

       The  terse output of ntfscmp is intentional because the provided infor-
       mation is enough in each case to determine the exact differences.  This
       can  be  achieved, for instance, if one compares the verbose outputs of
       ntfsinfo(8) for each reported inodes by the diff(1) utility.

OPTIONS
       Below is a summary of the options that ntfscmp accepts.

       -P, --no-progress-bar
              Don't show progress bars.

       -v, --verbose
              More informational output.

       -h, --help
              Display help and exit.

EXIT CODES
       The exit code is 0 on success, non-zero otherwise.

KNOWN ISSUES
       No problem is known. If you would find otherwise then please send  your
       report to the development team: ntfs-3g-devel@lists.sf.net

AUTHOR
       ntfscmp  was  written by Szabolcs Szakacsits.  It was ported to ntfs-3g
       by Erik Larsson.

AVAILABILITY
       ntfscmp is part of the ntfs-3g package and is available from:
       http://www.tuxera.com/community/

SEE ALSO
       ntfsinfo(8), ntfscat(8), diff(1), ntfsclone(8), ntfsprogs(8)

ntfs-3g 2017.3.23AR.3             April 2006                        NTFSCMP(8)