SysAdmin Adventures » fdupes http://blog.tpa.me.uk Tech notes from a Systems Administrator Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:09:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Short on storage? fdupes to the rescue! http://blog.tpa.me.uk/2009/09/22/short-on-storage-fdupes-to-the-rescue/ http://blog.tpa.me.uk/2009/09/22/short-on-storage-fdupes-to-the-rescue/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:14:13 +0000 Zordrak http://blog.tpa.me.uk/?p=156 I don’t know why I haven’t come across this before.. but sometimes you just don’t realise until you realise. I have a lot of data to take care of and space is always at a premium. I spend a decent amount of time looking for places to save space and better organise data. Well, when you deal with as much data as I do, you are almost certainly going to find yourself with duplicate copies of data in different places that you have forgotten about or never realised were duplicates in the first place.

fdupes to the rescue!

fdupes is a reasonably efficient program for checking directories for duplicate files based on checksums – so it will tell you if there are two identical files even if they have different names. It’s available in the SlackBuilds repository and thoroughly useful. It’s also interesting to discover files you had no idea might be duplicates all over the place.

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