Replace duplicates with symlinks [SOLVED]
Smoot Carl-Mitchell
smoot at tic.com
Mon Jul 28 19:19:20 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 14:30 -0400, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> Very interesting.... I wonder how it compares the files and decides
> which to delete? By name alone? File size? Time stamp? And does it move
> the files to the Trash, or somewhere else? More research is needed....
Interesting tool. However, you need to be very careful about merging
file with it. It compares files by checksumming the contents. Files
which are identical at a point in time, may not be appropriate to
replace with either hardlinks or symlinks. The tool found a lot if
identical files in my .evolution directory which would not be
appropriate to symlink.
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