How to Install fl-cow in Ubuntu 18.04



Install fl-cow by entering the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install fl-cow

Description:

copy-on-write utility

Fl-cow allows you to utilise hard links to save disk space by causing hard-linked files to be copied rather than overwritten as they are changed. . This is useful for making changes to large source trees while keeping a copy of the original tree to generate patches from. Also, if you are using the Arch revision control system with working copies hard-linked to a revision library, using fl-cow can prevent revision library corruption. . Fl-cow is an LD_PRELOAD hack, not a kernel patch.

Version: 0.6-4.2

Section: universe/utils