Timeline for Is there an easy way to replace duplicate files with hardlinks?
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| Aug 22, 2018 at 16:36 | comment | added | Marius Gedminas | There's a similar tool called jdupes that's based on fdupes, but it can also replace the duplicate files with symlinks (-l), hardlinks (-L) or instruct btrfs to deduplicate the blocks on the filesystem level (-B, if you're using btrfs). | |
| Nov 8, 2017 at 15:58 | comment | added | Calimo | fdupes seems to only find duplicates, not replace them with hardlinks, so not an answer to the question IMO. | |
| Jan 3, 2015 at 14:28 | comment | added | oligofren | Or if you just requre Linux compatibility, install rmlint which is blazingly fast, and has lots of nice options. Truly a modern alternative. | |
| Jan 3, 2015 at 13:43 | comment | added | oligofren | Try rdfind - like fdupes, but faster and available on OS X and Cygwin as well. | |
| Aug 30, 2013 at 15:07 | comment | added | neu242 | I just tried installing fdupes_1.50-PR2-4 on both Ubuntu and Debian, neither has the -L flag. Luckily building from github.com/tobiasschulz/fdupes was super easy. | |
| Aug 28, 2013 at 14:19 | comment | added | Stuart Axon | Ubuntu Note: As of September 2013, it hasn't had a stable release (it is on 1.50-PR2-3), so the update doesn't appear in ubuntu yet. | |
| Oct 12, 2010 at 20:03 | history | answered | tante | CC BY-SA 2.5 |