Ubuntu
fdupes package

linkhard option disappeared again

Bug #1128428 reported by Andreas Kotes
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
fdupes (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
fdupes (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Hello,

Version 1.50-PR2_4 removes --linkhard again, while it was (still) present in 1.50-PR2_3.

While there may be various reasons to remove it there are most likely plenty of users quite happily using the option as-is, thus willing and wanting to keep it.

Ubuntu should keep this option.

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Julian Taylor (jtaylor) wrote :

it was disabled because it causes dataloss, see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=677419

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in fdupes (Debian):
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in fdupes (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Adam Porter (alphapapa) wrote :

It could cause dataloss across filesystems. The reporter in question used it across chroots and symlinks and filesystems and it caused problems with /lib on his main fs. For an average use case, like deduplicating photos or music on a single filesystem, this is not an issue, and hardlinks are very desirable.

A newer hardlinks patch set was posted at <http://code.google.com/p/fdupes/issues/detail?id=8#c5>, but it has sat there for almost two years. It'd be very nice to have this feature back.

There's another Debian bug about this feature's being re-added: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=284274

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