>> We already have these packages: >> fdupes >> perforate > AFAIK, they do not replace files, they just find them.
Wrong, fdupe from perforate does link them together if one wants to. > 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. Or you just use rsync with --link-dest and don't need a second tool for it at all. -- bye, Joerg "That's just f***ing great, now the bar for being a cool guy in free software just got raised. It used to be you just had to write a million lines of useful code. Now you've got to get a subpoena from SCO to be cool." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
