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EXT4
Fragmentation viewers
deduplication
Not supported. Duplicated files can be removed and hardlinkied using 3rd party software:
- rdfind is a program to find duplicate files and optionally list, delete them or replace them with symlinks or hard links;
- jdupes - can convert duplicate files in hardlinks or relative softlinks
- fslint - GUI tool (deprecated)
- fslint-unofficial - snap provided but doesn't work!
- rmlint
- Nice feature to save state: replaying
- Can save checksums to xattr for faster consecutive runs miscellaneous-options
Not for ext4:
- duperemove
rmlint
rmlint /BIG/POOL --progress --xattr -c sh:hardlink --size 1M
Tools doesn't touch filesystem. It generate rmlint.sh
to make desired modification.
Please review script, especially function cp_hardlink
.
Function needs to hande errors a bit better - it first removes file without backup, and then if error occurs during hardlink there is no way back.
- rmlint.patch
1c1 < #!/bin/sh --- > #!/bin/sh -eu 192a193 > mv "$1" ~"$1".rmlint.$$ 194a196 > rm ~"$1".rmlint.$$
rdfind
rdfind . -dryrun