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 option 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 report 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)