Messages in this thread | | | From | "Peter T. Breuer" <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Microsoft invents symbolic links | Date | Fri, 3 Mar 2000 21:34:29 +0100 (MET) |
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"A month of sundays ago Pavel Machek wrote:" > 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?
> that I can diff -ur later... Hardlinks are not enough because I do not > want to accidentaly trash ofic.)
I think that on save, vi should do a mv foo foo.old, cp buff foo.
> So, I'd actually like cow-link. cp -a --cow-link mc ofic.mc would be > very usefull for me.
Agree.
Peter
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