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
for common questions and known issues. If you think you have found an
undocumented problem in the latest release of the software then please send an
email describing it in detail. You can contact the development team on the
ntfs-3g-devel@lists.sf.net address.
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.
SEE ALSO¶
ntfs-3g(8)