News How to Delete Duplicate Files in Linux with Fdupes

[Admin]

Getting rid of duplicate files can be a time-consuming task, but with Fdupes, you can locate and eliminate unnecessary files in Linux with just a simple command.

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[unis_torvalds]

But how would I have ended up with duplicate files on my disk in the first place?

 

[Deleted member 431422]

Why would you create duplicate files even. They talk about user directory only. Thank heavens the author didn't mention root dir. Newcomers would use Windows mentality and clean "the system", then complain on forums how Linux stopped working.

 

[hotaru.hino]

Even if the root directory was mentioned, unless you run this as sudo, it's not going to delete anything since user accounts typically don't own anything outside of their home directory by default.

And if you run this as sudo well, that's your fault.

 

[jkflipflop98]

Why would you create duplicate files even. They talk about user directory only. Thank heavens the author didn't mention root dir. Newcomers would use Windows mentality and clean "the system", then complain on forums how Linux stopped working.

Well, I mean go try to delete your system32 folder and see what happens. Windows won't allow it.
Windows wins. Again.

 

[unis_torvalds]

Windows won't allow it. Windows wins. Again.

And that's kind of the whole point of FOSS operating systems, isn't it. The vendor shouldn't win, the user should always win. But of course with closed proprietary OSes, whenever it comes down to user vs. vendor, it's MS (or Apple if you swing that way) who wins. In the FOSS world, users are in control of everything, period. It's like how we don't mandate speed governors on cars even though it means they can go over the speed limit. We just trust people to not be stupid. Do folks still get themselves into trouble? Of course. But such is the cost of freedom.

 

[Deleted member 431422]

Well, I mean go try to delete your system32 folder and see what happens. Windows won't allow it.
Windows wins. Again.

You'd have a hard time deleting duplicate files in system32 directory. Even if you created them intentionally, there might be some security policy preventing you from deleting it and Windows access rights are so convoluted, being an owner of a directory, an admin even, doesn't mean you can modify it.
I had to resort to linux to remove win7 from an old drive, because win10, which was somewhere else entirely, prevented me from deleting a broken install.

You see it's not black and white. Neither of these OS's are perfect. They cater to different people and this stupid, long lasting superiority argument is getting old.

 

[hotaru.hino]

It's like how we don't mandate speed governors on cars even though it means they can go over the speed limit.

It's actually because if engines were designed with a maximum speed limit of the legal speed limit, they would be hitting close to the red line. Running an engine hard all the time is a great way to kill it faster.

And in some cases where there is a speed governor, like on trucks, it's usually for safety/maintenance reasons (do you really want a dual trailer semi packed to the brim running down the highway at 90MPH?)