| .\" Copyright (c) 2005\-2006 Szabolcs Szakacsits. |
| .\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License. |
| .\" |
| .TH NTFSCMP 8 "April 2006" "ntfs-3g @VERSION@" |
| .SH NAME |
| ntfscmp \- compare two NTFS filesystems and tell the differences |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B ntfscmp |
| [\fIOPTIONS\fR] |
| .I DEVICE1 |
| .I DEVICE2 |
| .br |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| The |
| .B 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 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 |
| .BR ntfsclone (8) |
| to eliminate the usually uninteresting timestamp changes. |
| |
| The terse output of |
| .B 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 |
| .BR ntfsinfo (8) |
| for each reported inodes by the |
| .BR diff (1) |
| utility. |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| Below is a summary of the options that |
| .B ntfscmp |
| accepts. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-P\fR, \fB\-\-no\-progress\-bar\fR |
| Don't show progress bars. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR |
| More informational output. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR |
| Display help and exit. |
| .SH EXIT CODES |
| The exit code is 0 on success, non\-zero otherwise. |
| .SH KNOWN ISSUES |
| No problem is known. If you would find otherwise then please send |
| your report to the development team: |
| .nh |
| ntfs\-3g\-devel@lists.sf.net |
| .hy |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| .B ntfscmp |
| was written by Szabolcs Szakacsits. |
| It was ported to ntfs-3g by Erik Larsson. |
| .SH AVAILABILITY |
| .B ntfscmp |
| is part of the |
| .B ntfs-3g |
| package and is available from: |
| .br |
| .nh |
| http://www.tuxera.com/community/ |
| .hy |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .BR ntfsinfo (8), |
| .BR ntfscat (8), |
| .BR diff (1), |
| .BR ntfsclone (8), |
| .BR ntfsprogs (8) |