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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 2005\-2006 Szabolcs Szakacsits. |
2 | .\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License. |
3 | .\" |
4 | .TH NTFSCMP 8 "April 2006" "ntfs-3g 2014.2.15" |
5 | .SH NAME |
6 | ntfscmp \- compare two NTFS filesystems and tell the differences |
7 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
8 | .B ntfscmp |
9 | [\fIOPTIONS\fR] |
10 | .I DEVICE1 |
11 | .I DEVICE2 |
12 | .br |
13 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
14 | The |
15 | .B ntfscmp |
16 | program makes a comparison between two NTFS filesystems from all aspects and |
17 | reports all variances it finds. |
18 | The filesystems can be on block devices or images files. Ntfscmp can be used |
19 | for volume verification however its primary purpose was to be an efficient |
20 | development tool, used to quickly locate, identify and check the correctness |
21 | of the metadata changes made to NTFS. |
22 | |
23 | If one is interested only in the NTFS metadata changes then it could be useful |
24 | to compare the metadata images created by |
25 | using the --metadata option of |
26 | .BR ntfsclone (8) |
27 | to eliminate the usually uninteresting timestamp changes. |
28 | |
29 | The terse output of |
30 | .B ntfscmp |
31 | is intentional because the provided information is enough in each case |
32 | to determine the exact differences. This can be achieved, for instance, |
33 | if one compares the verbose outputs of |
34 | .BR ntfsinfo (8) |
35 | for each reported inodes by the |
36 | .BR diff (1) |
37 | utility. |
38 | .SH OPTIONS |
39 | Below is a summary of the options that |
40 | .B ntfscmp |
41 | accepts. |
42 | .TP |
43 | \fB\-P\fR, \fB\-\-no\-progress\-bar\fR |
44 | Don't show progress bars. |
45 | .TP |
46 | \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR |
47 | More informational output. |
48 | .TP |
49 | \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR |
50 | Display help and exit. |
51 | .SH EXIT CODES |
52 | The exit code is 0 on success, non\-zero otherwise. |
53 | .SH KNOWN ISSUES |
54 | No problem is known. If you would find otherwise then please send |
55 | your report to the development team: |
56 | .nh |
57 | ntfs\-3g\-devel@lists.sf.net |
58 | .hy |
59 | .SH AUTHOR |
60 | .B ntfscmp |
61 | was written by Szabolcs Szakacsits. |
62 | It was ported to ntfs-3g by Erik Larsson. |
63 | .SH AVAILABILITY |
64 | .B ntfscmp |
65 | is part of the |
66 | .B ntfs-3g |
67 | package and is available from: |
68 | .br |
69 | .nh |
70 | http://www.tuxera.com/community/ |
71 | .hy |
72 | .SH SEE ALSO |
73 | .BR ntfsinfo (8), |
74 | .BR ntfscat (8), |
75 | .BR diff (1), |
76 | .BR ntfsclone (8), |
77 | .BR ntfsprogs (8) |
78 |