Manual: 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 development tool, used to quickly locate, identify and check the correct‐
       ness 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 information 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:
       https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/wiki/

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

ntfs-3g 2022.10.3					 April 2006						  NTFSCMP(8)