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HardLink Deduplicator - Detect and Manage Duplicate Files with Hard Links

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HardLink Deduplicator - Detect and Manage Duplicate Files with Hard Links

Overview

HardLink Deduplicator is a tool for detecting and managing duplicate files on your system by utilizing hard links. It helps in reducing storage space usage by creating hard links between identical files.

Features

  • Detect and report duplicate files.
  • Deduplicate files by creating hard links.
  • Option to keep only one extra copy of the file or remove all duplicates.
  • Minimum file size setting to consider for deduplication.

Installation

Prerequisites

  • Supported operating systems: Windows
  • Go version 1.14 or higher

Installation Steps

  1. Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/NIR3X/hardlinkdeduplicator
  1. Change to the project directory:
cd hardlinkdeduplicator
  1. Build the project:
go build -o hardlinkdeduplicator.exe .\cmd\hardlinkdeduplicator
  1. Run the executable:
.\hardlinkdeduplicator -h

Usage

.\hardlinkdeduplicator [options] path

Options

  • -a: Remove all duplicates (default is to keep one extra copy of the file).
  • -d: Deduplicate files (not just report duplicates).
  • -s: Minimum file size to consider for deduplication (in bytes).
  • -v: Verbose output.

Example

.\hardlinkdeduplicator -a -d -s 1024 -v C:\Path\To\Directory

License

GNU AGPLv3 Image

This program is Free Software: You can use, study share and improve it at your will. Specifically you can redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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