David Rosal wrote:
it seems that e2fsprogs installs identical files with different names instead of simply symlink them.
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Is there any technical reason to make thinks like this? Can I replace one of each couple of identical files by a symlink?
Some programs act differently dependent on how they are called (e.g. grep vs. fgrep/egrep, flex vs. flex++). With ext2/ext3 related things, I'd imagine the same would hold true. For example, mkfs.ext3 is likely very similar to mkfs.ext2 except for adding default journalling related options. In the grep and flex examples, symlinks appear to do the trick, so I don't see why e2fsprogs should be any different. Maybe you could experiment and report it here and upstream? :)
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