Duplicate files

[Matthew Flaschen]

Steven Vollom wrote:
> I just installed fdupes.  I want to lean my primary drive partition.  It 
> is sda1.  I have 44gb of OS files and application files in a 50gb 
> partition.

It is hard for me to believe the OS is using 44 GB, on a Linux machine.
 I expect some of this is your data.

Can you run:

df -Th

with the filesystem in question mounted?  Assuming it is /, the command
would be:

fdupes -nr /

That does  a recursive search for duplicate files on /, ignoring empty
files.

This will take a fairly long time, so don't run it until you're sure you
 have the command right.  It will print each duplicate set, with spaces
between sets.  E.g.

/home/matthew/foo
/home/matthew/sameasfoo

/home/matthew/bar
/home/matthew/sameasbar
/home/matthew/alsosameasbar

You have to decide which (if any) duplicate you want to delete.

Matt Flaschen