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---
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title: "deduplicate"
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2025-02-12 14:01:15 +00:00
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tags: [ "system", "deduplicate", "maintenance", "storage" ]
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2024-08-07 16:03:53 +00:00
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---
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`rdfind`: find duplicate files, then delete them, or turn them into links.
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Ask if a directory has duplicates (`rdfind` will not delete anything):
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```bash
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rdfind $dir
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$EDITOR results.txt
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```
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Replace the duplicated files with [hard links](../basics/hard_links.md).
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```bash
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rdfind -makehardlinks true $dir
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```
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