Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi, Pádraig. > > On May 22 2006, Pádraig Brady wrote: > >>Description: A toolkit to find redundant disk usage >> FSlint is a toolkit to find redundant disk usage, like duplicate files >> for example. It includes a GUI as well as a command line interface. > > > This is a class of tools that interest me quite a lot. > > Would you, please, care to explain in the long description how it > differs from fdupes (which is what I have been using for eliminating > duplicate files)?
First of all, fslint is a suite of tools. As well as duplicate files, it can be used to find temporary files, help clean unused packages, troublesome filenames, ... OK taking a quick look at fdupes: fdupes is CLI only fslint has both CLI and (GTK) GUI http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/FSlint-2.08-pt_BR.png fdupes is implemented in C fslint is shell (CLI) and python (GUI) fslint is FAST and scalable: $ time ./findup --gui /usr/share/doc > /dev/null real 0m1.829s $ time ./fdupes -q -r /usr/share/doc > /dev/null real 0m6.981s I have found nothing as fast as fslint for finding duplicates. fslint can merge duplicates using hardlinks. Note this isn't a trivial addition to fdupes. fslint has very sophisticated hardlink processing, which I verified fdupes does not handle. This is required in the case where one wants to incrementally merge using hardlinks multiple trees. fdupes hasn't been updated in 4 years (since June 2002) fslint is updated actively: http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/NEWS.html cheers, Pádraig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
