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EXT4

Fragmentation viewers

deduplication

Not supported. Duplicated files can be removed and hardlinkied using 3rd party software:

  • rdfind is a program to find duplicate files and optionally list, delete them or replace them with symlinks or hard links;
  • jdupes - can convert duplicate files in hardlinks or relative softlinks
  • fslint - GUI tool (deprecated)
  • fslint-unofficial - snap provided but doesn't work!
  • rmlint

Not for ext4:

  • duperemove

rmlint

rmlint /BIG/POOL --progress --xattr -c sh:hardlink --size 1M
 
cp rmlint.json POOL.json
rmlint /BIG/POOL --progress --xattr --size 20M --replay POOL.json

rdfind

rdfind . -dryrun