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dupmerge2

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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


http://dupmerge.sourceforge.net

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  • Dupmerge forks

    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 ...

    12:11AM on May 23 2009 by nobody0

  • Important system Limits!

    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, ...

    11:53PM on May 07 2009 by nobody0

  • Forum comment added

    nobody0 commented on the RE: Add Doc files forum thread

    11:14PM on May 07 2009 by nobody0

  • Forum thread added

    fabianaffolter created the Add Doc files forum thread

    11:10AM on Jan 23 2009 by fabianaffolter

  • dupmerge 1.73 file released: dupmerge_1.73.zip

    changelog.txt from dupmerge
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    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 ...

    10:26PM on Mar 01 2008

  • New version 1.73

    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 ...

    09:32PM on Mar 01 2008 by nobody0

  • Code committed

    nobody0 committed patchset 12 of module dupmerge to the dupmerge2 CVS repository, changing 1 files

    06:03PM on Mar 01 2008 by nobody0

  • Code committed

    nobody0 committed patchset 11 of module dupmerge to the dupmerge2 CVS repository, changing 2 files

    06:01PM on Mar 01 2008 by nobody0

  • New version 1.7

    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 ...

    12:54AM on Oct 30 2007 by nobody0

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    12:47AM on Oct 30 2007 by nobody0

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