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What do you use to actually manage your stuff? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Everyone here is talking about how to get the latest and best stuff, but no one is talking about how they actually manage it 😜

So, how do YOU manage your Movies / Shows / Music / eBooks / Games?

I begin:

Plex for Movies / Shows / Music
Kavita for eBooks and Manga
Romm for my Gamecollection and Roms (it supports PC games aswell)

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[-] myxi@feddit.nl 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use Prowlarr + Radarr + Sonarr + Jellyfin.

I have /data directory organised like this:

/data
├── media
│   ├── books
│   ├── movies
│   ├── music
│   └── tv
└── torrents
    ├── books
    ├── movies
    ├── music
    └── tv

Files added from Sonarr goes to torrents/tv and that for Radarr torrents/movies. Once the torrent client has downloaded the files, Sonarr and Radarr hardlinks the needed files to media's respective folders. I have set media/tv for shows and media/movies for movies on Jellyfin. Everything is automated, I love it.

[-] PURSUTE@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I have a similar setup but without the hardlinks. Can you explain the benefits/reason for using the them? I think I understand what a hardlink is, but don't quite get why you'd use it in this context.

[-] myxi@feddit.nl 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The torrent client can get confused about the authenticity of the files if you make any changes to the files that were downloaded. It can also have trouble finding all the files required for seeding, so moving the needed files to media is a no.

Once the torrent client finishes downloading the files, instead of copying the needed files among them to media's respective folder, we simply make a hardlink to it to save space and to ensure the authenticity of the files in torrents folder such that the torrent client has no trouble seeding the files.

The seeded folder which contains the needed files can also contain media that can potentially confuse Jellyfin such that it shows it; furthermore, less useless files also decreases the scanning time taken by Jellyfin. So instead of directly linking the respective folders in torrents we have a separate and more clean directory for Jellyfin media.

TL;DR: to save space and to ensure your torrent client can keep seeding the files.

[-] BitterSweet@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Underneath the file system, files are represented by inodes. (Or is it multiple inodes? Not sure.)

A file in the file system is basically a link to an inode. A hard link, then, just creates another file with a link to the same underlying inode.

source: stackoverflow sym versus hard links

Making a copy simply makes another inode, doubling your storage usage. You can use jdupes to convert duplicate files to hard links.