configs-scripts VS duperemove

You can't combine them, and if you try, you're almost certainly going to have a bad time. But on a BTRFS file system, you can deduplicate all the data between them. I run that script on my own setup, and the space savings from so doing are significant.

Prefix deduplication has massive space savings potential. I made a script that you can run periodically that handles running duperemove on installed Proton versions and the compatdata folder for BTRFS filesystems: vacuum-steamplay

I also dislike the spacious padding that GTK tends to use. I have tweaks that I use for GTK3 gtk.css that make the UI more compact. We can almost certainly still do that here, we just need to sit down with the Adwaita demo and the GTK inspector and just start poking and tweaking.

The only way to change the UI density is with xdg-config/gtk-{3,4}.0/gtk.css. You can use @import to split the changes across multiple files. Here is what I use to slim down GTK3. You also need this tweak for the headerbar height to not be decided by an invisible "sizing box".

Very useful for identifying files that may need to get deduplicate or that can be removed entirely. Unfortunately, I don't think this will also find identical directories.

If deleting files isn't what you want, I'd suggest looking into deduplicating tools.

ZFS has its own de duplicator built in, which is nice. It should just deduplicate files and individual extents of files by itself once you enable it. Probably not a good idea on very write-heavy disks, but it's an option.

Other file systems with extent level deduplication can use https://github.com/markfasheh/duperemove to not only deduplicaye files, but also deduplicate individual extents. This can be very useful for file systems that store a lot of duplicate content, like different WINE prefixes. For filesystems without extent deduplication, duperemove should try hard linking files to make them take up practically no disks space.

ZFS now has reflink support, which doesn't require lots of RAM, but isn't done automatically while writing. You need to run something like https://github.com/markfasheh/duperemove

Then duperemove

Filesystems like Btrfs and XFS have support for deduplication, you can use a program like duperemove to save space.

Maybe you could use a file deduplication instead of a block based? https://github.com/markfasheh/duperemove

If not bees, do you run other programs for deduping? I see jdupes has support for BTRFS, https://github.com/jbruchon/jdupes, and also duperemove, https://github.com/markfasheh/duperemove.

It's a good filesystem, I use it with a special setup that needs a filesystem with snapshots. It's been stable for me, I run a duperemovehttps://github.com/markfasheh/duperemove) occasionally and that's about all the maintenance it needs.

With Btrfs or XFS you can easily deduplicate the data with tools like duperemove, potentially saving a lot of space if you've installed many small games.