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Fdupes is a very useful tool – it searches your harddisk for duplicated files and helps you to keep it structured. Currently, it only supports deleting duplicated files, which is not suitable for my music collection, because I want to store the same music in different places (eg. to make a collection for different reasons like music for a wedding and so on). One possibility would be to add tags to the music. But this would take very long to search through all and you can’t just copy the preselected files with just a filemanager. The solution is: fdupes should hardlink instead of deleting. Mehr…