I always wondered why hardlinks in radarr/ sonarr and qbittorrent didn’t work for me. I think the problem was that I mapped the directories as below:
volumes:
- ./config:/config
- ./downloads:/downloads
- ./movies:/movies
whereas I should’ve mapped them as:
volumes:
- ./config:/config
- ./media:/media
- ./media/downloads:/media/downloads
- ./media/movies:/media/movies
Now, how do I replace all the duplicate files in /downloads with the links?
What is radaar?? Never heard about it??
Just add more storage /s
You can’t hard link across docker volumes. In the second example, you need to remove the /media/movies and /media/downloads volumes, only keep /media.
After fixing this, only future downloads will be hard links. Use a deduplication tool like jdupes to create hard links for the already downloaded files.
I don’t think that particular setup has any issue but have you confirmed if it is enabled and they were copies and not hard links? Doing ls -l will show hard link count. Also all of those directories are in home folder right? I don’t think you can keep them in different partitions but don’t quote me on that.
Hard links are default. Files look like duplicates but they dont take double amount of storage. To empty storage you have to delete both files.
As someone elese already said, you should use single volume for both radarr and qbittorrent.
This is from wiki.servarr:
data
├── torrents
│ ├── movies
│ ├── music
| ├── books
│ └── tv
├── usenet
│ ├── movies
│ ├── music
│ ├── books
│ └── tv
└── media
├── movies
├── music
├── books
└── tv
Following this you should have
volumes:
- /path_to_qbit_config:/config
- /path_to_data:/data
volumes:
- /path_to_radarr_config:/config
- /path_to_data:/data
What’s the best way to easily delete both files? I first assumed that deleting listings from Radarr cleaned up both files.
I couldnt find best way tbh. You could set your qbittorrent to auto delete after some time or when hit specific ratio, then manually delete from arrs. There is also app that auto deletes library after X days (, but didnt try it myself.
None of that suits my needs, so I just do it manually from both qbit and library
Edit: best way is to get more storage so you do it less frequently or you never do it 🙃
