Good day, all,
Sorry for the offtopic post; I sincerely believe this will be
useful to developers with multiple copies of, say, the linux kernel tree
on their drives. I'll be brief. Please followup to private mail -
thanks.
Freedups scans the directories you give it for identical files and
hardlinks them together to save drive space. Please see
ftp://ftp.stearns.org/pub/freedups . V0.2.1 is up there; it has received
some testing, but may yet contain bugs.
I was able to recover ~676M by running it against 8 different
2.4.x kernel trees with different patches that originally contained ~948M
of files. YMMV.
I do understand there are better ways to handle this problem (cp
-av --link, cvs? Bitkeeper, deleting unneeded trees, tarring up trees,
etc.). See the readme for a little discussion on this. This is just one
approach that may be useful in some situations.
Cheers,
- Bill
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