{"id":1616,"date":"2015-11-23T10:04:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.colliertech.org\/cj\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2015-11-23T10:04:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:04:41","slug":"regarding-fdupes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/?p=1616","title":{"rendered":"Regarding fdupes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear readers,<\/p>\n<p>There is a very useful tool for finding and merging shared permanent storage, and its name is fdupes.  There was a terrible occurrence in the software after version 1.51, however.  They removed the -L argument because too many people were complaining about lost data.  It sounds like user error to me, and so I continue to use this one.  I have to build from source, since the newer versions do not have the -L option.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tobiasschulz\/fdupes\">https:\/\/github.com\/tobiasschulz\/fdupes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And so there you are.  I recommend using it, even though this most useful feature has been deprecated and removed from the software.  Perhaps there should be a fdupes-danger package in Debian?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=cjamescollier\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear readers, There is a very useful tool for finding and merging shared permanent storage, and its name is fdupes. There was a terrible occurrence in the software after version 1.51, however. They removed the -L argument because too many people were complaining about lost data. It sounds like user error to me, and so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,17,79,207,47,102,166,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colliertech","category-debian","category-free-software","category-git","category-linux","category-open-source","category-software","category-ubuntu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1YDIB-q4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}