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Typically I want to know about duplicate files in order to save space, but I don't necessarily want to delete a duplicate file entirely in case there's somethin
by bhaney 2y ago
Typically I want to know about duplicate files in order to save space, but I don't necessarily want to delete a duplicate file entirely in case there's something referencing it over the other file it's a duplicate of. Seems like it would be more useful if it could turn duplicates into hardlinks/softlinks/snapshots instead of deleting them, so I could get all the space savings without having to worry about things breaking. As-is, it's only really good for organizational/clutter reasons on data that isn't referenced, rather than general purpose space-savings.
- m-chaturvedi 2y agoThanks a lot for the input! As of now, it can just output the sets of files in json format that can be used by another program if one doesn't want to delete anything.