Backup backup backup! If you have btrfs them just take a snapshot first: instantly.
One could do a non-destructive rename first. E.g. prepend deleteme. to the file name, sanity check it, then 'rollback' by renaming back without the prefix or commit and delete anything with the prefix.
ln creates a hard link, ln -s creates a symlink.
So, yes, the hardlink tool effectively replaces a file's duplicates with hard links automatically, as if you'd used ln manually.
For backup or for file-level reduplication?
If the latter, how?
I have exactly the same problem.
I got as far as using fdupe to identify duplicates and delete the extras. It was slow.
Thinking about some of the other comments... If you use a tool to create hardlinks first, then one could then traverse the entire tree and deleting a file if it has more than one hardlink. The two phases could be done piecemeal and are cancelable and restartable.
I don't care if this is "fake" nor "gay", it is wholesome.
I'm really appreciating your use of &c.
Are you in the nineteenth century by any chance?
Yet.
As IPv4 blocks get scarcer and ISP's get more customers, they'll all eventually have to move to IPv4 CGNAT.
And that's completely fine for most people.
If you're not one of those people, then IPv6 is your saviour.
Remember: in most cases the c-suite consider you merely as resources(human) a source of labour.
To them employees are things.
Customers are just a revenue source, they are also just things.
CEO's are just chasing their next quarterly performance bonus.
Fuck them too!
I read that in Agent Smith's voice.
Fucking LOL while scrolling next to sleeping wife. You bastard.
ARM won the mobile/tablet form factor right from the start. Apple popularised ARM on the desktop. Amazon popularised ARM in the cloud.
Intel's been busy shitting out crap like the 13900K/14900K and pretending that ARM and RISC-V aren't going to eat their lunch.
The only beef I have with ARM systems is the typical SoC formula, I still want to build systems from off the shelf components.
I can't wait.