On Friday 01 June 2018, Karel Zak wrote: > For last 17 years in Red Hat based distros is available hardlink(1) > util, man hardlink: > > hardlink traverses one or more directories searching for duplicate > files. When it finds duplicate files, it uses one of them as the > master. It then removes all other duplicates and places a > hardlink for each one pointing to the master file. This allows for > conservation of disk space where multiple directories on a single > filesystem contain many dupli cate files. > > ... > > the util is little bit orphaned, what about to add this util to > util-linux to make it available for another distros and keep it > maintained in serious way? ;-) +1 > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/hardlink.git/ The original and almost identical repo is this: https://pagure.io/hardlink.git I've CC'ed the project admin Kevin Fenzi. > It's one .c file. > > Comments & objections? > > Karel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
