Nope, I am only using one drive (with a single ext3 filesystem on it). I know I can do a find -inum, but I was wondering if there was something more efficient. I am actually using an md5 checksum to find duplicate files, but then I need to hunt down all their hard links. Dan On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 01:46 +0200, Herta Van den Eynde wrote: > Daniel Davidson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a situation where I have numerous files with numerous hard links > > to each of them on an ext3 RHEL4.2 system. Some of these files are > > duplicates of the others. I would like to re-link all of the > > duplicates to point to a single inode. > > For instance if file1 has > > hardlinks link1 and link2, and file2 has hardlinks link3 and link4, I > > need to change it so that link1, link2 (these two are already correct), > > file2, link3, and link4 are all hardinks to file1. The only > > information I have to start with are the inode numbers of file1 and > > file2 and the pathnames of file1 and file2. > > Not sure I understand properly. It looks as though you want to compare > every file on a given filesystem with every other file on that > filesystem, and if they are duplicates, replace one of the actual files > with a hard link to the other file. > > > Any ideas beyond searching all of the filenames on the system and > > replacing them with the proper link? > > Remember that hardlinks cannot cross filesystem borders. > > > That takes a long time. > > I suppose you could write a script that cksums all files on the > filesystem, sorts the output, and verifies that two files with the same > cksum are actually the same. If they are, it could ask whether it's OK > to overwrite one of the files with a hardlink to the other. And yes, > depending on the size of your filesystem, that would take time. > > Kind regards, > > Herta > > Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
