"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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