Re: Data De-duplication

Ray Van Dolson
2008-12-10T22:10:07Z

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 01:57:54PM -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
>

Neat tool. I guess this just checks for duplicate files though. It
would be interesting to see how many duplicate *blocks* there are
across the filesystem, agnostic to files...

Is this somthing your script does Oliver?

Ray