NAME
ntfs-3g.probe - Probe an NTFS volume mountability
SYNOPSIS
ntfs-3g.probe <--readonly|--readwrite> volume
DESCRIPTION
The ntfs-3g.probe utility tests a volume if it's NTFS mountable read-only or read-write, and exits with a status value accordingly. The volume can be a block device or image file.
OPTIONS
Below is a summary of the options that ntfs-3g.probe accepts.
- -r, --readonly
-
Test if the volume can be mounted read-only.
- -w, --readwrite
-
Test if the volume can be mounted read-write.
- -h, --help
-
Display help and exit.
EXAMPLE
Test if /dev/sda1 can be mounted read-write:
ntfs-3g.probe --readwrite /dev/sda1
EXIT CODES
The exit codes are as follows:
- 0
-
Volume is mountable.
- 11
-
Syntax error, command line parsing failed.
- 12
-
The volume doesn't have a valid NTFS.
- 13
-
Inconsistent NTFS, hardware or device driver fault, or unsetup SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware.
- 14
-
The NTFS partition is hibernated.
- 15
-
The volume was not cleanly unmounted.
- 16
-
The volume is already exclusively opened and in use by a kernel driver or software.
- 17
-
Unsetup SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware.
- 18
-
Unknown reason.
- 19
-
Not enough privilege to mount.
- 20
-
Out of memory.
- 21
-
Unclassified FUSE error.
KNOWN ISSUES
Please see
https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/wiki/NTFS-3G-FAQ
for common questions and known issues. If you think you have found an undocumented problem in the latest release of the software then please post an ntfs-3g issue describing it in detail so that the development team can be aware of the issue and take care of it:
https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/issues
AUTHORS
ntfs-3g.probe was written by Szabolcs Szakacsits.
THANKS
Alon Bar-Lev has integrated the utility into the NTFS-3G build process and tested it with Erik Larsson before the public release.