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# Check if hardlinks are working
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You've followed the guide step by step but still want to check if hardlinks are working, or someone on the Sonarr/Radarr support team asked you to check if your files are hardlinked ?
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For this you can use 2 options to check if you got working hardlinks.
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Both ways requires you to login to your terminal with Putty or similar.
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## The ls -al method
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This is the easiest to check in my opinion.
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In your terminal cd to your download location or type `ls -al /path/to/your/download/location/`
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You will get a listing of all your files and on the left side you will see a couple of numbers, every files with a number above 1 are hardlinks.
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- Red rectangle - Not Hardlinked
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- Green rectangle - Hardlinks
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- Blue rectangle - Folders/Directories you will need to go in to them to check if the files are hardlinked.
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## The stat method
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This way requires a bit more work.
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In your terminal type: `stat /path/to/your/download/location/file.mkv`
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and also type: `stat /path/to/your/media/location/file.mkv`
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you then will get 2 results you can use to compare several things.
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1. Links: Everything above 1 means it's a hardlink
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2. Inode: if the numbers match you know the files are hardlinked
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