FSlint
FSlint is a toolkit to find various forms of lint on a filesystem. At the moment it reports duplicate files, bad symbolic links, troublesome file names, empty directories, non stripped executables, temporary files, duplicate/conflicting (binary) names, and unused ext2 directory blocks.
| Tags | Filesystems Systems Administration Security |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | Python Unix Shell |
Recent releases
- 10 Sep 2008 12:04
Changes: Opening files from the GUI is now allowed. An error with handling duplicates over 2GB in size was fixed. Translations were updated.
- 21 May 2008 14:16
Changes: Czech and Turkish translations were added. Issues with finding duplicate files with unusual characters in their names were fixed. Support for deleting found items was improved.
- 19 Sep 2007 04:27
Changes: New translations were made for Hebrew, Italian, and Russian. The translations for Chinese (simplified), French, German, Swedish, and Vietnamese were updated. The GUI now handles paths with spaces in the names of empty directories and spaces at the end of names of duplicate files. Brace expansion was removed from debian/rules to allow the package to build on Debian systems where dash is the default shell. A bug reintroduced in 2.22 (GUI only) where duplicates with independent hardlinks were not reported correctly was fixed.
- 28 Jun 2007 10:46
Changes: This release adds a Spanish translation, a whitespace indenting checker/fixer, and file rename functionality. It fixes multi-byte encoding issues. It fixes a rare issue where files could be deleted in error when merging duplicate files.
- 09 Mar 2007 10:01
Changes: CPU usage has been reduced significantly when finding duplicates. This release handles large same-sized files more efficiently when finding duplicates. There are RPM and deb package fixes and enhancements.
