From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: util-linux <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: hardlink util -- files de-duplication
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 13:38:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180601113807.ghf6dtcd5xa6qptu@ws.net.home> (raw)
For last 17 years in Red Hat based distros is available hardlink(1)
util, man hardlink:
hardlink traverses one or more directories searching for duplicate
files. When it finds duplicate files, it uses one of them as the
master. It then removes all other duplicates and places a hardlink
for each one pointing to the master file. This allows for
conservation of disk space where multiple directories on a single
filesystem contain many dupli‐ cate files.
...
the util is little bit orphaned, what about to add this util to
util-linux to make it available for another distros and keep it
maintained in serious way? ;-)
https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/hardlink.git/
It's one .c file.
Comments & objections?
Karel
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next reply other threads:[~2018-06-01 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-01 11:38 Karel Zak [this message]
2018-06-01 13:08 ` hardlink util -- files de-duplication Ruediger Meier
2018-06-01 20:20 ` Kevin Fenzi
2018-06-02 0:00 ` Francisco J. Tsao Santin
2018-06-01 13:25 ` Aurélien Aptel
2018-06-01 13:45 ` Samuel Thibault
2018-06-06 12:02 ` Carlos Santos
2018-06-01 13:29 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2018-06-12 10:55 ` Karel Zak
2018-06-12 11:22 ` Ruediger Meier
2018-06-12 12:12 ` Karel Zak
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