Package: fdupes Version: 1.50-PR2-3 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss
By mistake, I have been using fdupes -rL on what i thought were directories, but one was a symbolic link to a directory on another file system. It found duplicates accross file systems, ... and removed one end. For the little story, the end where it removed files was /lib, and I was deduplicating chroots, so it found plenty of duplicates... try running anything without ld.so... Anyways, this can easily be reproduced. Assuming /mnt/a and /mnt/b are two different filesystems: $ echo a > /mnt/a/a $ echo a > /mnt/a/b $ echo a > /mnt/b/a $ fdupes -rL /mnt/a /mnt/b [+] /mnt/a/a [h] /mnt/a/b -- unable to create a hardlink for the file: Invalid cross-device link [!] /mnt/a/a $ ls /mnt/b $ -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
