chkbit

chkbit alerts you to data corruption in your files, especially during transfers, backups, and after recovery. It helps detect issues like disk damage, filesystem errors, and malware interference.

Chkbit Introduction

• Install
• How does it work?
• Usage
• FAQ

version 6

• chkbit adds a new atom mode to store all indices in a single file
• there is a new fuse command to merge split indexes into an atom
• If you come from an old version, please check out the new simplified CLI syntax
• Note that some commands have suboption (e.g. to skip checking existing hashes, see chkbit update -h)