Questions

The Frequently Asked Ones are not on this page, since there is an excellent FAQ section
on William Stearns freedups page http://www.stearns.org/freedups/README
Please note, that freedup is a completely independant implementation, with other means and other capabilities.
The Main difference is the ability of freedup to provide symlinks from different file systems.

And here are my questions.
How do you like the performance of freedup?
Are the provided packages what you want?
What about the documentation. Is it sufficient?
Please provide me some feedback here or per mail.

Contacts and Credits

Please send comments, suggestions, bug reports, patches, and/or additions to AN@freedup.org .

A lot of different web sites were helpful. I used William Stearns freedups for many years quite successfully until I lacked some features, which freedup fixes.

Thanks to Tony Graffy for compiling and publishing SuSE RPMs at packmans.

Thanks to Tomasz Muras with his Perfect Match for being a fair competitor.

Thanks to Miroslav Suchy on root.cz for reporting on freedup. However, I hope it is a positive comment.

Thanks to Thorsten Leemhuis and c't (24/2007) on writing and publishing "Auswahl satt", which is a German article about "System-Utlities für Linux", which covers these topics: file managers, sorting & finding, and archiving files. Freedup was his choice to find and link duplicate files.

Thanks to Michael Riepe and iX (11/2007) on writing and publishing "Entdoppeltes Lottchen", which is a German article about "Dateien mit gleichem Inhalt finden und beseitigen". He spent one third of the article on freedup (counting paragraphs).

Donations

This software is for free of charge. On the other hand there also no liability for whatsoever.

Just in case you feel obliged to provide me some return and you are not contributing in other ways to the software community, I kindly ask you to visit my advertisment section. If you intend to buy one of the offerings there, I will receive some bonus.