1 .\" Copyright (c) 2005\-2006 Szabolcs Szakacsits.
2 .\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License.
4 .TH NTFSCMP 8 "April 2006" "ntfs-3g @VERSION@"
6 ntfscmp \- compare two NTFS filesystems and tell the differences
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.
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
27 to eliminate the usually uninteresting timestamp changes.
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
35 for each reported inodes by the
39 Below is a summary of the options that
43 \fB\-P\fR, \fB\-\-no\-progress\-bar\fR
44 Don't show progress bars.
46 \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
47 More informational output.
49 \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
50 Display help and exit.
52 The exit code is 0 on success, non\-zero otherwise.
54 No problem is known. If you would find otherwise then please send
55 your report to the development team:
57 ntfs\-3g\-devel@lists.sf.net
61 was written by Szabolcs Szakacsits.
62 It was ported to ntfs-3g by Erik Larsson.
67 package and is available from:
70 http://www.tuxera.com/community/