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<h1 id="hardlinks-and-instant-moves-atomic-moves">Hardlinks and Instant Moves (Atomic-Moves)<a class="headerlink" href="#hardlinks-and-instant-moves-atomic-moves" title="Permanent link"></a></h1>
<h2 id="description">Description<a class="headerlink" href="#description" title="Permanent link"></a></h2>
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<p>If youre wondering why hard links arent working or why a simple move is taking far longer than it should.</p>
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<p>This Guide exist out of 4 Sections</p>
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<li>This page with a short description.</li>
<li><a href="/Hardlinks/How-to-setup-for/">How to setup for</a> your installation method.</li>
<li><a href="/Hardlinks/Examples/">Examples</a> what you should use for your path settings in your used applications.</li>
<li><a href="/Hardlinks/Check-if-hardlinks-are-working/">Check if hardlinks are working</a></li>
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<p>So you want one of the following ?</p>
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<li>Instant moves (Atomic-Moves) during import of the Starr Apps (useful when using Usenet)?</li>
<li>You don't want to use twice the storage when using torrents. (hardlinks)?</li>
<li>You want to perma seed?</li>
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<p>Then Continue to <a href="/Hardlinks/How-to-setup-for/">How to setup for</a> your installation method.</p>
<h2 id="faq">FAQ<a class="headerlink" href="#faq" title="Permanent link"></a></h2>
<h3 id="what-are-hardlinks">What are Hardlinks<a class="headerlink" href="#what-are-hardlinks" title="Permanent link"></a></h3>
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<li>[<strong>Short answer</strong>] Having a file in multiple locations without using double your storage space.</li>
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<p>[<strong>Long answer</strong>] Hard links are a way for a copy operation to be instant and not consume space for those additional copies.</p>
<p>Every file is a hard link: some metadata that points at blocks on the file system, <strong>which is why they're restricted to the same file system</strong>. There can be as many metadata files pointing at those blocks as needed and the blocks know how many links point to them. Once the blocks have 0 links, they're considered deleted.</p>
<p>This means:</p>
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<p>You can delete any "copy" w/o impacting the others.</p>
<p>Your download client can remove it's "copy" w/o impacting the library "copy". The library "copy" can be removed by Plex or Sonarr/Radarr or yourself w/o impacting the download client "copy".</p>
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<p>Space is only regained when all "copies" are deleted.</p>
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<p>Modifying the file will impact all "copies".</p>
<p>For example, modifying the id3 tags of a .mp3 download after import would modify the download client "copy", resulting in breaking the torrent.</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">More info from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></p>
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<p>You can't create hard links for directories <img alt="‼" class="twemoji" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/jdecked/twemoji@15.0.3/assets/svg/203c.svg" title=":bangbang:" /></p>
<p>You can't cross file systems <img alt="‼" class="twemoji" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/jdecked/twemoji@15.0.3/assets/svg/203c.svg" title=":bangbang:" /></p>
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<p>A real move and not a copy file from download folder to media folder and then delete file from download folder.</p>
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<h3 id="what-are-the-starr-apps">What are the Starr Apps<a class="headerlink" href="#what-are-the-starr-apps" title="Permanent link"></a></h3>
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