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System Administration Commands                        ntfscmp(1M)



NAME
     ntfscmp - compare two  NTFS  file  systems  and  report  the
     differences

SYNOPSIS
     ntfscmp [options] device1 device2


DESCRIPTION
     The ntfscmp utility compares all aspects of  two  NTFS  file
     systems  and reports all differences it finds. The file sys-
     tems can be on block devices or in image files. ntfscmp  can
     be  used  for volume verification. However, its primary pur-
     pose 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  useful  to  compare  the metadata images created by
     using the --metadata option of  ntfsclone(1M)  to  eliminate
     the usually uninteresting timestamp 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.




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System Administration Commands                        ntfscmp(1M)



ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:



     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | system/file-system/ntfsprogs|
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Interface Stability         | Uncommitted                 |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|


SEE ALSO
     diff(1),    ntfscat(1M),    ntfsclone(1M),     ntfsinfo(1M),
     ntfsprogs(1M), parted(1M), attributes(5)


     http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org

AUTHORS
     ntfscmp was written by Szabolcs Szakacsits.































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