How does tar deal with hardlinked files? I have a 2.5 TB of data that I want to put in a 2TB hard drive to mail somewhere. It's not hopeless, as a very large fraction of the data consists of duplicate files. I am considering using `jdupes` with the `-H` option, which will replace duplicate files with hardlinks to a single file. Here's the problem: **If I tar a directory containing multiple hard links to other files in the directory tree, will`tar` "reduplicate" them in the archive file?**

Probably a duplicate from Dereferencing hard links

By default, a single copy of hardlinked data should be included in your archive.