ntfscmp(1M) System Administration Commands ntfscmp(1M)NAMEntfscmp - compare two NTFS file systems and report the differences
SYNOPSISntfscmp [options] device1 device2
DESCRIPTION
The ntfscmp utility compares all aspects of two NTFS file systems and
reports all differences it finds. The file systems can be on block
devices or in image files. ntfscmp can be used for volume verification.
However, its primary purpose is to be an efficient development 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, it can be use‐
ful to compare the metadata images created by using the --metadata
option of ntfsclone(1M) to eliminate the usually uninteresting time‐
stamp changes.
The terse output of ntfscmp is intentional, because the provided
information is sufficient to determine exact differences. More copious
output can be obtained by using diff(1) to compare the verbose output
of ntfsinfo(1M) for each reported inode.
OPTIONS
Supported options are listed below. Options have both single-letter and
full-name forms.
-h, --help
Display help and exit.
-P, --no-progress-bar
Do not show progress bars.
-v, --verbose
Display more debug, warning, and error messages.
EXIT STATUS
The exit code is 0 on success, non-zero otherwise.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │system/file-system/ntfsprogs │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Interface Stability │Uncommitted │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOdiff(1), ntfscat(1M), ntfsclone(1M), ntfsinfo(1M), ntfsprogs(1M),
parted(1M), attributes(5)
http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org
AUTHORSntfscmp was written by Szabolcs Szakacsits.
SunOS 5.11 28 May 2009 ntfscmp(1M)
