Comments on: fdupes – A Command Line Tool to Find and Delete Duplicate Files in Linux

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 04:30:39 +0000

In reply to Tony.

@Tony,

Yes, you can specify the other drives by providing their mount points or directories as arguments when running fdupes.

fdupes /mnt/drive1 /mnt/drive2 /mnt/drive3

This will scan all specified drives.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 15:05:59 +0000

Hello, I have three HDDs on my system, but it seems that fdupes only accesses the system drive (/sda). Is there a way to get fdupes to scan the other drives as well? Regards, Tony

By: James Baxter

James Baxter — Wed, 22 May 2024 19:45:49 +0000

I am James. I have been looking at this and copying and pasting a lot of items, but I am not getting anywhere. After going through this, can you help? > Note: Please use the saved script below for removal, not the above output.

==> In total, 15,085 files were scanned, of which 9,221 are duplicates in 1,627 groups.
==> This equals 343.72 GB of duplicates which could be removed.
==> 2,828 other suspicious items found, which may vary in size.
==> Scanning took a total of 4h 32m 33.995s.
Wrote a JSON file to: /home/james/rmlint.json
Wrote a SH file to: /home/james/rmlint.sh

I think this is the 2nd part that I have copied and pasted. May 22, 2024:

/home/james/.mozilla/firefox/63dm9l4n.default-release/storage/default/https+++go.games4grandma.com/ls/usage
/home/james/.mozilla/firefox/63dm9l4n.default-release/storage/default/https+++support.google.com/ls/usage

/home/james/rmlint.2024-05-13T00:46:55Z.sh
/home/james/rmlint.2024-05-13T01:29:40Z.sh
/home/james/rmlint.2024-05-13T01:32:53Z.sh
/home/james/rmlint.2024-05-13T01:36:44Z.sh

/home/james/.thunderbird/74y4qawf.default-release/crashes/store.json.mozlz4
/home/james/.mozilla/firefox/63dm9l4n.default-release/crashes/store.json.mozlz4

/home/james/USB STICK/.mozilla/firefox/bjbrigvv.default-release/Telemetry.FailedProfileLocks.txt
/home/james/.config/libreoffice/4/user/extensions/shared/lastsynchronized
/home/james/.config/libreoffice/4/user/extensions/bundled/lastsynchronized

I hope this helps!

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 04:25:30 +0000

In reply to Antonio.

@Antonio,

It seems there might be a misunderstanding about how fdupes processes the directories. The order of the output isn’t necessarily tied to the order of the directories specified in the command. Instead, fdupes scans all the directories simultaneously and then lists the duplicates collectively, regardless of their original directory.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 20:40:42 +0000

Hello, and thank you for the insightful guide on using fdupes for managing duplicate files. I've found the information extremely helpful. However, I've encountered some unexpected behavior that I'm struggling to understand. I recently executed the command:

bash
fdupes -Sr /path1/to/directory_1 /path2/to/directory_2

My expectation was that the output would prioritize listing duplicate files in /path1/to/directory_1 first, followed by duplicates in /path2/to/directory_2, based on the order in which the directories are specified in the command. But this isn't what's happening. Instead, the order of the output doesn't seem to align with the order of the directory paths provided in the command. This is intriguing, as I was under the impression that fdupes would process the directories sequentially based on their order in the command line.