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.
- 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.
- Supported operating systems: Windows
- Go version 1.14 or higher
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/NIR3X/hardlinkdeduplicator- Change to the project directory:
cd hardlinkdeduplicator- Build the project:
go build -o hardlinkdeduplicator.exe .\cmd\hardlinkdeduplicator- Run the executable:
.\hardlinkdeduplicator -h.\hardlinkdeduplicator [options] path-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.
.\hardlinkdeduplicator -a -d -s 1024 -v C:\Path\To\Directory
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.