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clawbot 1477c57024 Leave removed copies out of report and trees (closes #173)
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A deleted duplicate stayed in both reports until a scan covered it, and
a missing scan operand is a fatal error. report now runs lstat on each
path of a possible duplicate group and drops paths that are gone; trees
does the same for the directory at the top of each copy, never the
files inside. A group left with one copy is not reported. Only "does not
exist" and "not a directory" count as gone, so a permission error keeps
the copy for an unprivileged user. README says a stale report is fixed
by scanning again, and its Docker example mounts the scanned tree for
report too.

Model: opus-5-5
2026-11-11 04:45:43 +00:00
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@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ records the files it finds in an SQLite database. SQLite keeps a whole database
in one file. The database is kept between runs. A rescan reads only new and
changed files. That makes `scan` cheap enough to run every day from `cron`, the
system's job scheduler. `report`, `trees` and `info` work from the database and
can run at any time. `dwim` scans `/` and then prints the `trees` report, for a
first look at a new machine with one command.
can run at any time. `report` and `trees` leave out a copy that was deleted
after the scan. `dwim` scans `/` and then prints the `trees` report, for a first
look at a new machine with one command.
## Getting Started
@@ -114,20 +115,15 @@ docker run --rm -v /srv:/srv:ro -v /var/lib/sfdupes:/var/lib/sfdupes \
Run `scan` as root, so that it can read every file. `scan` warns about a
directory it cannot read, and about a new or changed file it cannot read. It
skips the path and deletes the records at or below it (see "Rules for the
walk").
An unmounted disk leaves its mount point empty, so `scan` deletes every record
under it, and the next scan reads every file on the disk again. Test the mount
point of each disk at or below `/srv` with its own `mountpoint -q`, joined with
`&&`, and test `/srv` only when it is one. As the file `/etc/cron.d/sfdupes`:
walk"). As the file `/etc/cron.d/sfdupes`:
```
30 3 * * * root if mountpoint -q /srv; then /usr/local/bin/sfdupes scan /srv 2>>/var/log/sfdupes.log || tail -n 3 /var/log/sfdupes.log; else echo "a disk is not mounted; scan of /srv skipped"; fi
30 3 * * * root /usr/local/bin/sfdupes scan /srv 2>>/var/log/sfdupes.log || tail -n 3 /var/log/sfdupes.log
```
- The first scan creates `/var/lib/sfdupes/db.sqlite` and its directory. To keep
the database elsewhere, put `SFDUPES_DATABASE=/path/to/db.sqlite` directly
before `/usr/local/bin/sfdupes`.
the database elsewhere, put `SFDUPES_DATABASE=/path/to/db.sqlite` before the
command on the same line.
- `scan` writes nothing to stdout. Its stderr, appended here to
`/var/log/sfdupes.log`, holds:
- one line naming the database;
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@@ -29,9 +29,6 @@
Newest first. An entry ends with its date and its issue or branch, where those
are known.
- `README.md` says what a disk that is not mounted does to the database. The
daily `cron` line runs `scan` only when `mountpoint` reports `/srv` as mounted
(2026-11-11, https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/175)
- `report` and `trees` leave out a copy that was deleted after the scan. Each
checks only the copy itself with `lstat`: the file, or the directory at the
top of a tree. A group left with one copy is not reported. A missing `scan`