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Add flag to ignore inode changes in removeifnotchanged

Open dnadle opened this issue 9 months ago • 0 comments

This commit adds a command line option (-e or --noinodes) to allow fdupes to remove duplicates even if the inode changes between calls to stat(). The following comment added to README explains:

Some remote-mounted filesystems (e.g. gvfs-smb) generate inodes in the client instead of sending server inode values. With a large number of files or client cache activity, inodes can change even though the file has not changed or moved. Using -e or --noinodes allows fdupes to delete files where the device, creation and modification times, and size has not changed during processing, ignoring any inode change.

dnadle avatar May 14 '24 16:05 dnadle