by nobody0
The project is a continuation of the old dupmerge program. dupmerge securely searches for files (of size >0) with equal content and if it finds such files, they get hard linked for saving disk space. It also has a sparse mode, a deletion mode and an inve
The original dupmerge author, Phil Karn, has rewritten the original version from scratch, with a new algorithm: http://www.ka9q.net/code/dupmerge/ . So there are now, since december 2008, two actual versions (forks) of dupmerge: The karn and the freitag ...
I found out that dupmerge can reach the system limit of hard links while dupmerging database directories (dupmerge output): ... lstat(./var/lib/pgsql/data/base/2517760/3054028) failed lstat: No such file or directory Files linked: 208674 of 959741, ...
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changelog.txt from dupmerge =========================== Circa 1993: Initial version, Phil Karn, karn (at) ka9q (dot) net. 1998-02-12: Last version from Phil Karn. 2004-12-07: Version 1.1 Added swap macro, invers mode, no replacing of zero length ...
I made some minor changes, added some comments and checked with coreutils-5.2.1 (find ./ -type f -print0 | dupmerge) and my archive (about 500 GB in one million files on an encrypted partition). In the release (zip) is an executable (dupmerge: sticky ...
nobody0 committed patchset 12 of module dupmerge to the dupmerge2 CVS repository, changing 1 files
nobody0 committed patchset 11 of module dupmerge to the dupmerge2 CVS repository, changing 2 files
I made some minor changes, added Cygwin support and a new feature: With the s option soft links instead of hard links are used! So dupmerge can do linking on more filesystems, e. g. FAT. I've used this to get more free space on USB memory sticks and ...
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