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NTFSCMP(8)		     System Manager's Manual		      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 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 op-
     tion 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 re-
     port to the development team: ntfs-3g-devel@lists.sf.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:
     https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/wiki/

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

ntfs-3g 2022.10.3		   April 2006			      NTFSCMP(8)

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