Re: Data De-duplication

Oliver Mattos
2008-12-10T22:06:18Z

On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 13:57 -0800, Tracy Reed wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 09:42:16PM +0000, Oliver Mattos spake thusly:
> > I'm considering writing that script to test on my ext3 disk just to see
> > how much duplicate wasted data I really have.
>
> Check out the fdupes command. In Fedora 8 it is in the yum repo as
> fdupes-1.40-10.fc8
>
FDupes is good for whole file matches, but btrfs supports partial-file
duplication elimination (eg. where two big files share some parts in
common but other parts have changed). Fdupes would be a good start
though.