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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Hard links cannot traverse filesystems.
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...
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
You can do 1 day or 2:1 ratio
I do 10 days or 10 times ratio. That way less popular torrents get some seed time, and more popular torrents get seeded more.
Yeah the important thing is it's inclusive or, both rules can be active simultaneously
That's how I set it up yeah :P
I don't know there are any limits to hardlinks other than that the source and destination needs to be on the same drive.This might help
thanks for the link! I searched a bit more and found this microsoft docs that explicitly says that exfat does not support hardlinks nor softlinks... I'll have to change filesystem I guess
If that's the case then a reformat into something that will support it is simple enough
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