Hi!
> > Actually, 40% of my disk capacity is wasted in duplicates. Why? I do
> > cp -a linux linux.backup before major changes. Automagicall ways to
> > get space back would be nice. (I also cp -a package ofic.package, so
>
> Won't vi do this automatically if you hardlink?
Yes, it probably will. But I'm afraid some other shell script,
somewhere will just overwrite the file... Because it can.
> > Actually, 40% of my disk capacity is wasted in duplicates. Why? I do
> > cp -a linux linux.backup before major changes. Automagicall ways to
> > get space back would be nice. (I also cp -a package ofic.package, so
> > that I can diff -ur later... Hardlinks are not enough because I do not
> > want to accidentaly trash ofic.)
>
> Use cp -al. All the editors that I tried will handle it correctly and
> creating a new file for the edited thing. patch also works like that.
> I always use cp -al for backups and creating diffs.
I'll try it once again. I remember getting bitten by this. Anyway,
with cow-links, you could even have different permissions on different
copies. (This is what I do, too: clean sources are under root, but
working set is under pavel. That is not possible with cp -al.)
Pavel
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