Hello! I set up jellyfin+sonarr+radarr+prowlarr+qbittorrent in my home server, and it all works well. the only problem is that I’m storing my files on a usb HDD with exFAT filesystem, and it does not support (AFAIK) hardlinks. due to this, sonarr/radarr are copying the files from the download folder (on the internal SSD with xfs) to the USB HDD.

  1. do I understand correctly what’s going on? XD
  2. what is your setup or what do you suggest to do to avoid this? Ideally, I would like to download the files on the internal SSD and then move the files to the external HDD, and then hardlink it into the download folder to keep seeding it. If this is not possible, it would also be a good solution to download directly inside the USB drive, and then hardlink it into the jellyfin library.

any tip is greatly welcome! thank in advance fellow pirates!

  • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 months ago

    A hard link won’t work across filesystems or across disks. If you want to point to another arbitrary filesystem, you’d need a symlink. I don’t know if that’s supported in that software stack. But you either move that Download directory to the same filesystem on the USB HDD, or use symlinks, or figure out a different way.

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    9 months ago

    I feel you, I have exactly the same issue. What you can do is set qbit to delete the file after X amount of seeding /time so by then the file would’ve been moved. It sucks as i would like to seed as much as i can but i can’t store things twice…

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      9 months ago

      this could be an idea, but this would comport that remote files nobody wants will be there forever while very requested files will disappear quickly… I think I’ll just backup all the files and change the filesystem to NTFS or XFS

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          9 months ago

          it seems so… We will also need to move both the qbittorrent download folder and the jellyfin/plex library on the same drive, as hardlinks only works there