NTFSCMP(8)                                                                                                            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 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 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-develATlists.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/

       The manual pages are available online at:
       http://man.linux-ntfs.org/

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



ntfs-3g 2011.4.12                                          April 2006                                                 NTFSCMP(8)