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. Ntf‐
   scmp  can  be used for volume verification however its primary purpose was to be an efficient development tool, used to quickly locate, identify and check the correctness of the meta‐
   data 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 information is enough in each case to determine the exact differences. This can be achieved, for instance, if one com‐
   pares 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:
   https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/wiki/