[clug] file reorgs: moving files & maintaining directory structures

Brett Worth brett.worth at gmail.com
Sat Aug 26 05:20:30 UTC 2017


On 26/08/17 14:54, steve jenkin via linux wrote:
> Questions:
>
> 1. Are there good DeDuplication tools you can recommend based on SHA1 or MD5? I had to invent my own :(
>
> 2. What tools other people used for this sort of work? [Reorganising and partitioning by date or size]

I've used fdupes a few times with great success.  Some versions (not all) have an option
to delete all but one of the duplicate files and hard link to the one copy.  This can make
a huge difference.

Brett

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