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                                            Paul Dreik

"Permission denied" is common and should not have a scary message

I agree this text is too alarming.

Only pairs of hard links ?

I think this is the caveat listed on the front README?

Allow to swap first bytes/last bytes checks

Thank you for searching the issue tracker first! I think your suggestion would be a good default.

recursion limit exceeded running on smb mounts

Hmm, this does indeed need better handling.

If settings both -minsize and -ignoreempty true the first is ignored

Hmm, this does indeed look problematic. Maybe using both options at once should raise an error. I should fix this, thanks for the report!

Display more accurate space saving if removeidentinode is false

Do you perhaps already have files with multiple hardlinks? I thinks so because you run with the -removeidentinode false. In that case, rdfind will find those and replace them with...

Display more accurate space saving if removeidentinode is false

You are right.

Allow setting SomeByteSize for first/last bytes checks

That sounds like a good idea - I think I also would need to hash the first SomeByteSize bytes in case they exceed the hash buffer size, which may slow...

Allow setting SomeByteSize for first/last bytes checks

It would be interesting to hear about your use case - how many duplicate files are there, how big are they? Thinking about how this partial comparisons could be improved...

This is definitely worth considering. Caveats include all the combinations of property that differs (owner/group/time/perms) and what action is taken (symlink, hardlink). This is not trivial to find out what...