joshsalvi Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 Hi, my setup currently has a number of top-level shares, eg/mnt/user/downloads/mnt/user/tv/mnt/user/movies/mnt/user/music However, this leads to full copies of files rather than Hardlinks in multiple directories. I’d like to restructure my directories according to trash guides here https://trash-guides.info/Hardlinks/How-to-setup-for/Unraid/ Is there a straightforward way to take my many TBs of existing data and restructure them using hardlinks per the guide above? I imagine this has been done before but didn’t find a guide for this specific case. Thank you! Happy to provide more details as needed! Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 I am trying to understand why you need hard links? It looks as if all the shares except ‘downloads’ have mutually exclusive content so once you move a file from the ‘downloads’ share to the correct target share no hard link is required. What am I missing? Quote Link to comment
joshsalvi Posted August 8, 2023 Author Share Posted August 8, 2023 4 hours ago, itimpi said: I am trying to understand why you need hard links? It looks as if all the shares except ‘downloads’ have mutually exclusive content so once you move a file from the ‘downloads’ share to the correct target share no hard link is required. What am I missing? Right, the problem is that if I want to continue seeding, it's helpful to have a copy in the Downloads directory and in the corresponding media directory. The other reason is that this speeds up importing the file to nearly instantaneous when using radarr/sonarr/lidarr, as opposed to moving the file itself. The guide I linked above delves into this a bit, but perhaps I'm complicating it too much? Quote Link to comment
samarrs Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 (edited) On 8/8/2023 at 10:57 AM, joshsalvi said: Right, the problem is that if I want to continue seeding, it's helpful to have a copy in the Downloads directory and in the corresponding media directory. The other reason is that this speeds up importing the file to nearly instantaneous when using radarr/sonarr/lidarr, as opposed to moving the file itself. The guide I linked above delves into this a bit, but perhaps I'm complicating it too much? I am in exact same situation. Were you able to find any easier way to do this? Thabks in advance. Edited January 29 by samarrs Quote Link to comment
MJWSay Posted May 8 Share Posted May 8 Did you find a solution to this? Same problem for me I almost finished transferring all my data then read the trash guides rookie mistake I know Quote Link to comment
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