Hello! I have jellyfin+qbittorrent+radarr on my home server, but I can’t make it work with hardlinks. When a download finishes, it just copies it to the /movie folder, doubling the disk space. at least, I think that it’s just a copy, because the disk space is double and find ./downloads -samefile ./movies/path/to/file.mkv returns no result, meaning if I understand correctly that file.mkv is not hardlinked to any file in the download folder (but it should).
HDD1 hard drive is formatted ext4, that supports hardlinks (in fact I can create them manually), and in the radarr settings the checkbox “use hardlinks instead of copy” is checked.
Ideally I’d prefer softlinks instead of hadlinks, but I don’t think there’s a way to do it natively, I think I’d need an external script
You want to mount the drive at /media/HDD1:/media or something like that and configure Radarr to use /media/movies and /media/downloads as it’s storage locations.
Hardlinks only work on the same volume, which technically they are, but the environment inside the container has no way of knowing that.
I didn’t realize this when I first set up Radarr/Sonarr and they ended up copying every single file instead of hardlinking. By the time I realized, I had like 400gb of duplicate files. Ended up running fclones and getting it all back.
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It’s the multiple volumes that are throwing it.
You want to mount the drive at
/media/HDD1:/mediaor something like that and configure Radarr to use/media/moviesand/media/downloadsas it’s storage locations.Hardlinks only work on the same volume, which technically they are, but the environment inside the container has no way of knowing that.
I didn’t realize this when I first set up Radarr/Sonarr and they ended up copying every single file instead of hardlinking. By the time I realized, I had like 400gb of duplicate files. Ended up running fclones and getting it all back.
I can’t believe it, thank you very much!
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