ntfs-3g.probe - Probe an NTFS volume mountability
ntfs-3g.probe <--readonly|--readwrite>
volume
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.
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.
Test if /dev/sda1 can be mounted read-write:
ntfs-3g.probe --readwrite /dev/sda1
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.
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
ntfs-3g.probe was written by Szabolcs Szakacsits.
Alon Bar-Lev has integrated the utility into the NTFS-3G build
process and tested it with Erik Larsson before the public release.