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Operating Systems Linux Slackware Which Unix for Fileserving with NTFS partitions as one sole purpose use? Post 55625 by Mark Ward on Wednesday 15th of September 2004 06:27:26 PM

09-15-2004

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Thanks for the suggestions...Seems like everyone has their own favourite, though I bet they'll all do the simple tasks I need.

I installed ClarkConnect on the suggestion of a friend which had a super easy wizard at the front end and recognised all my hardware correctly, however under the "stand-alone" option I chose I couldn't fingure out how to get a bash promt, let alone filesharing & samba. All I get is the DNS config screen, even the Help command doesn't work, apparantly I don't have permission.."Directory Broswing is not allowed!"

I chose stand-alone as I didn't really want any internet bits installed, no proxy, smtp, ftp, http servers etc. Just a box to load up with files that my XP PCs and SliMP3 devices can read.

I have been downloading Fedora, but low-level of stability doesn't sound like my thing so I'll get SUSE instead, apparantly the latest build is quite recent and has some modern touches.

I undertood from my research so far that Slackware is great if you know what you're doing, but less than ideal for the beginner. Is this the case? I'm definitely a beginner, less than 4 hours total Linux experience.

Also, I think I've mis-understood what SAMBA is, I thought it enabled you to install NTFS partitioned drives in your Linux machine and have them served to the network. Having read a bit further I now think that it merely allows Linux volumes to be seen as if they are NTFS partitioned drives. Is this correct?

If so, how straight forward is it to add another HDD everytime the current one gets full? I'm wondering whether I should maybe give up on Linux, but then I'm enjoying the learning experience so I'll persevere a little longer.

Thanks again,

Mark.

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ntfscmp

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 --meta-
       data 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: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net

AUTHOR

       ntfscmp was written by Szabolcs Szakacsits (szaka@sienet.hu).

AVAILABILITY

       ntfscmp is part of the ntfsprogs package and is available from:
       http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/19/37

       The manual pages are available online at:
       http://man.linux-ntfs.org/

SEE ALSO

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

ntfsprogs 1.13.1						    April 2006								NTFSCMP(8)