cowdancer software package provides Copy-on-write directory tree utility, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install cowdancer
cowdancer is installed in your system.
Make ensure the cowdancer package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep cowdancer *
You will get with cowdancer package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Utilities |
| Package | cowdancer |
| Version | 0.81ubuntu1 |
| Description | Copy-on-write directory tree utility |
| Sub Section | Utils |