Sometimes (rather always), duplicate files eat up space on hardrive. If you want to compute the total space wasted by
such duplicate files this utility script may come handy. fdupes
is a nice utility that finds the duplicate files in the
given directories. This script consumes the fdupes output and calculates the space wasted.
These steps assume *nix flavor OS (OS X/Linux) but this might work on Windows+Cygwin as well
- Install fdupes on your machine (verify by doing
fdupes --version
on Terminal)