hardlink command

Sergio Belkin sebelk at gmail.com
Sun Nov 10 20:07:17 UTC 2013


I've found the interesting tool hardlink, supposedly it scans
directories looking for duplicates files and eventually can
consolidate them using hardlinks
Well it doesn't work for me, eg:

[sergio at madryn tmp]$ ls  /tmp/test1 /tmp/test2
/tmp/test1:
alpha

/tmp/test2:
alpha
[sergio at madryn tmp]$ hardlink   -n -v -v /tmp/


Directories 11
Objects 25
IFREG 9
Comparisons 0
Would link 0
Would save 0

Only it works if I use the -c option:

[sergio at madryn tmp]$ hardlink  -c   -v -v  /tmp/
Linked /tmp//alpha to /tmp//examples/alpha, saved 12
Linked /tmp//test1/alpha to /tmp//test2/alpha, saved 558


Directories 11
Objects 25
IFREG 9
Comparisons 2
Linked 2
saved 8192
[sergio at madryn tmp]$ ls -i /tmp/test1 /tmp/test2
/tmp/test1:
46798 alpha

/tmp/test2:
46798 alpha

Please tell me if it happens you the same, so I report the bug, don't I?

OS and pkg Data:

[sergio at madryn tmp]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat)
[sergio at madryn tmp]$ rpm -q hardlink
hardlink-1.0-17.fc19.x86_64

Thanks in advance
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