| Steve Kondik | 2111ad7 | 2013-07-07 12:07:44 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | .\" Copyright (c) 2005\-2006 Szabolcs Szakacsits. |
| 2 | .\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License. |
| 3 | .\" |
| 4 | .TH NTFSCMP 8 "April 2006" "ntfs-3g @VERSION@" |
| 5 | .SH NAME |
| 6 | ntfscmp \- compare two NTFS filesystems and tell the differences |
| 7 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 8 | .B ntfscmp |
| 9 | [\fIOPTIONS\fR] |
| 10 | .I DEVICE1 |
| 11 | .I DEVICE2 |
| 12 | .br |
| 13 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 14 | The |
| 15 | .B ntfscmp |
| 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. |
| 22 | |
| 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 |
| 26 | .BR ntfsclone (8) |
| 27 | to eliminate the usually uninteresting timestamp changes. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | The terse output of |
| 30 | .B ntfscmp |
| 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 |
| 34 | .BR ntfsinfo (8) |
| 35 | for each reported inodes by the |
| 36 | .BR diff (1) |
| 37 | utility. |
| 38 | .SH OPTIONS |
| 39 | Below is a summary of the options that |
| 40 | .B ntfscmp |
| 41 | accepts. |
| 42 | .TP |
| 43 | \fB\-P\fR, \fB\-\-no\-progress\-bar\fR |
| 44 | Don't show progress bars. |
| 45 | .TP |
| 46 | \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR |
| 47 | More informational output. |
| 48 | .TP |
| 49 | \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR |
| 50 | Display help and exit. |
| 51 | .SH EXIT CODES |
| 52 | The exit code is 0 on success, non\-zero otherwise. |
| 53 | .SH KNOWN ISSUES |
| 54 | No problem is known. If you would find otherwise then please send |
| 55 | your report to the development team: |
| 56 | .nh |
| 57 | ntfs\-3g\-devel@lists.sf.net |
| 58 | .hy |
| 59 | .SH AUTHOR |
| 60 | .B ntfscmp |
| 61 | was written by Szabolcs Szakacsits. |
| 62 | It was ported to ntfs-3g by Erik Larsson. |
| 63 | .SH AVAILABILITY |
| 64 | .B ntfscmp |
| 65 | is part of the |
| 66 | .B ntfs-3g |
| 67 | package and is available from: |
| 68 | .br |
| 69 | .nh |
| 70 | http://www.tuxera.com/community/ |
| 71 | .hy |
| 72 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| 73 | .BR ntfsinfo (8), |
| 74 | .BR ntfscat (8), |
| 75 | .BR diff (1), |
| 76 | .BR ntfsclone (8), |
| 77 | .BR ntfsprogs (8) |