Relink - find or receate hard links

Purpose

Relink will examine and find files on a filesystem that are identical and candidates for relinking into a hard link saving disk space.

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Download the latest version for linux systems. Last updated Aug 2011

Usage

usage: relink [-vMmtr] dir ...
      -v               increase verbose level
      -M size          maximum size to consider: default unlimited
      -m size          minimum size to consider: default 4K
      -t               ignore mtime when comparing files
      -r               relink files, default just shows

Examples

$ relink -vv ./mp3 ./tmp/car_mp3
Scanning ./mp3 for files
Scanning ./tmp/car_mp3 for files
Found 11977 files, ignored 337
Sorting files
Processing files
Found candidate for relinking:
  903:200144c7   664   1      pmg      pmg    8095872 ./tmp/car_mp3/20090110/cd11/Above and Beyond - Anjunabeats Vol. 6/1-01 - Paul Keeley - Paper Jet.mp3
  903:200144e5   664   1      pmg      pmg    8095872 ./mp3/MP3_Rework/Full_CDs/__filenames_ok/Above and Beyond - Anjunabeats Vol. 6/1-01 - Paul Keeley - Paper Jet.mp3
Found candidate for relinking:
  903:200144ca   664   1      pmg      pmg    6805632 ./tmp/car_mp3/20090110/cd11/Above and Beyond - Anjunabeats Vol. 6/1-06 - Proff - My Personal Summer.mp3
  903:200144cd   664   1      pmg      pmg    6805632 ./mp3/MP3_Rework/Full_CDs/__filenames_ok/Above and Beyond - Anjunabeats Vol. 6/1-06 - Proff - My Personal Summer.mp3
Found candidate for relinking:
  903:200144e7   664   1      pmg      pmg    5449856 ./tmp/car_mp3/20090110/cd11/Above and Beyond - Anjunabeats Vol. 6/2-11 - Oliver Smith - Cirrus.mp3
  903:200144d2   664   1      pmg      pmg    5449856 ./mp3/MP3_Rework/Full_CDs/__filenames_ok/Above and Beyond - Anjunabeats Vol. 6/2-11 - Oliver Smith - Cirrus.mp3
Done

Min Size:                4096  B
Too Small files:             337

Scan error:                    0
Start files found:         11977
Finish file count:         10517

Meta: comparisons:         15527
Meta: mismatch:            10516
Meta: already linked:       1457
Meta: match:                3554

Data: comparisons:          3554
Data: mismatch:             3551
Data: read error:              0
Data: same:                    3

Relink error:                  0
Full size:              73536 MB
Already saved:           8350 MB
Relink savings:         19874 KB
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