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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

http://tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/

for common questions and known issues. If you think you have found an undocumented prob-
lem in the latest release of the software then please send an email describing it in de-
tail. You can contact the development team on the ntfs-3g-devel AT lists.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.