Bug#509685: ITP: hardlink -- Hardlink multiple copies of the same file
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 12:04:43PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> >
> > Hardlink is a tool which detects multiple copies of the same file and replaces
> > them with hardlinks.
> > .
> > The idea has been taken from http://code.google.com/p/hardlinkpy/, but the
> > code has been written from scratch and licensed under the MIT license.
>
> Do we really need another tool like this?
>
> We already have these packages:
>
> fdupes
> perforate
AFAIK, they do not replace files, they just find them.
>
> Plus a host of tools that do backups, datapacker that packs things onto
> DVDs, and the like, using hard links.
hardlink can be used to link files in multiple backup trees,
and also features options to maximize/minimize the link count,
and much more.
Imagine you have two backups, each on a different filesystem. Now you
want to have them both on one filesystem. In this situation, you can use
hardlink to link all common files in the backups together.
>
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