On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 01:38:07PM +0200, 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? ;-) > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/hardlink.git/ > > It's one .c file. > > Comments & objections? Better late than never. BTW, our hardlink package has some Owl patches applied, please remind us to rebase and submit them. ;) -- ldv
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