nir3x / hardlinkdeduplicator

HardLink Deduplicator - Detect and Manage Duplicate Files with Hard Links

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

2. Change to the project directory:

cd hardlinkdeduplicator

3. Build the project:

go build -o hardlinkdeduplicator.exe .\cmd\hardlinkdeduplicator

4. 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

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.