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Questions about contributing

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I am currently working on some changes to fdupes to make it work a bit better with the btrfs de-duplication process duperemove. I have added some new arguments to limit...

clara-j

optimize for speed

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ivan-dives

Feature request: ignore files copied with --reflink=auto on BTRFS

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Files copied with --reflink=auto on BTRFS are already sharing the same data. However fdupes identify them as duplicates (and in a technical sense, they are indeed duplicates). It would be...

saintger

hi, I was trying to compare the speed of execution of different tools - `duff`, `jdupes` and `fdupes` - and it appeared to me that `fdupes` missed many files, but...

patatetom

Enable clonefile on macOS

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On macOS 10.13 you can do `cp -c` to create a "clonefile", which is a deduplicated copy of a file that is not a hard link. I'd like to see...

danielhoherd

fdupes: option to not traverse filesystems

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_From @sandrotosi on December 20, 2015 14:4_ _From [matrixhasu](https://code.google.com/u/matrixhasu/) on October 08, 2009 21:55:20_ Debian bug `#496472` - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496472 It would be nice if fdupes had an option to not...

sandrotosi

db-inf

Feature Request: Accept file lists as input.

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In some cases I want to compile a list of files using external tools (find, grep, whatever) and feed that to fdupes. Fdupes would then try to find duplicates only...

rolfen

Combine redundant code bits that only call stat()

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Several functions call `stat()` and only return a single value from the `struct stat` returned: ``` filesize() getdevice() getinode() getmtime() getctime() ``` There is also a `stat()` call at [line...

jbruchon

Feature Request: use deduplication on COW filesystems

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On filesystems like ZFS, OCFS2, and BtrFS it's possible to rely on copy-on-write semantics and have more than one distinct file pointing to a single copy on disk but behaving...

rbanffy