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How to check if hardlinks are working
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?
You can use 2 options to check if you got working hardlinks.
Both ways requires you to login to your terminal with PuTTY or similar software.
Method 1: Using ls
This is the easiest to check in my opinion.
In your terminal cd to your download location and run ls-al or type ls -al /path/to/your/download/location/
You will get a listing of all your files and on the left side you will see a couple of numbers, every file with a number above 1 are hardlinks.
- Red rectangle - Not Hardlinked
- Green rectangle - Hardlinks
- Blue rectangle - Folders/Directories you will need to go in to them to check if the files are hardlinked.
Method 2: Using stat
This way requires a bit more work.
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On the terminal type:
stat /path/to/your/download/location/file.mkv -
On the terminal type:
stat /path/to/your/media/location/file.mkv
You will get 2 results you can use to compare several things.
- Links: Everything above 1 means it's a hardlink
- Inode: if the numbers match you know the files are hardlinked